Randomness

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Author(s): Bennett, Deborah J
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1998

Language: English
Commentary: no images pp.22,55,81,105
Pages: 256
City: Cambridge
Tags: Chance -- Popular works.;Probabilities -- History.;Probabilities -- Popular works.

Content: Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index.