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Chances Are: Adventures in Probability
by Kaplan, Michael; Kaplan, Ellen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670034878
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034871
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Viking Press, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Fine. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, heavy, sturdy book, blue covers, very bright silver lettering on spine, 319 lightly browned pages along edges. DJ glossy white background with ornate complex blue design with a flipped edge like the Ace of Hearts card at top front right, praise on back from Barry Magar. Very Fine DJ/Near Fine book.
Synopsis
A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomness Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling—reluctantly—for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man’s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable—to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applications—from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52317
- Title
- Chances Are: Adventures in Probability
- Author
- Kaplan, Michael; Kaplan, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670034878
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034871
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Science Mathematics Physics Probability
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
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