Title:
Do dice play God? : the mathematics of uncertainty / Ian Stewart.
ISBN:
9781541699472
Personal Author:
Edition:
First US edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Summary:
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
OCLC Number:
on1112737615
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
