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Author Bennett, Deborah J., 1950-

Title Randomness / Deborah J. Bennett.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  519.2 B43    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  519.2 BE    Check Shelf
Description 238 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-231) and index.
Summary "This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time." "To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, and moving from an intuitive sense to a formal notion of probability presents further problems. Author Deborah Bennett traces the path this process takes in an individual trying to come to grips with concepts of uncertainty and fairness, and charts the parallel course by which societies have developed ideas about randomness and determinacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents 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.
Subject Probabilities -- Popular works.
Probabilities -- History.
Chance -- Popular works.
ISBN 0674107454
9780674107458
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