Do dice play God? : the mathematics of uncertainty /
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 pervade...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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Table of 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.