An edition of The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
(1989)
The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
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by John Beatty
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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
October 26, 1990, Cambridge University Press
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in English
052139838X 9780521398381
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The Empire of chance: how probability changed science and everday life
1990, Cambridge UniversityPress
in English
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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
April 28, 1989, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover
in English
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0521331153 9780521331159
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"In July of 1654 Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre Fermat about a gambling problem which came to be known as the Problem of Points: Two players are interrupted in the midst of a game of chance, with the score uneven at that point."
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