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Randomness (1998) (edit title/settings)

by Deborah J. Bennett (Author) (edit contributors)

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From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds to your neighbor's last bout with the state lottery, humankind has put itself into the hands of chance. In our modern world, life itself may be at stake when probability comes into play-in the chance of a false negative in a medical... read more

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1. Chance encounters
2. Why resort to chance?
3. When the gods played dice
4. Figuring the odds
5. Mind games for gamblers
6. Chance or necessity?
7. Order in apparent chaos
8. Wanted: random numbers
9. Randomness as uncertainty
10. Paradoxes in probability.

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  1. Deborah J. Bennett (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 9780674107458
Page Count: 238

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