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Title Statement | Do dice play God?: the mathematics of uncertainty / Ian Stewart. |
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Author | Stewart, Ian, 1945- |
Publication | New York: Basic Books,2019.©2019 |
Edition | First US edition. |
Extent of Item | 292 pages |
ISBN | 1541699475 9781541699472 |
Other Number | 3614461 |
General Notes | "Originally published in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso. |
Contents | Six ages of uncertainty -- Reading the entrails -- Roll of the dice -- Toss of a coin -- Too much information -- Fallacies and paradoxes -- Social physics -- How certain are you? -- Law and disorder -- Unpredicting the predictable -- The weather factory -- Remedial measures -- Financial fortune-telling -- Our Bayesian brain -- Quantum uncertainty -- Do dice play God? -- Exploiting uncertainty -- Unknown unknowns. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index. |
Summary | Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.Life is full of uncertainty-- indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact-- and humans are terrible at guessing. Stewart reveals that, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some of the tools we need to better manage the uncertainty that pervades our lives. From forecasting, to medical research, to figuring out how to win Let's Make a Deal, he provides a tour of what we can know, and what we never will. --adapted from jacket |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Probabilities |
Chaotic behavior in systems |