Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty - Ian Stewart
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************************************************************************************** *********** If you enjoy, please support the author by purchasing the book *********** ************************************************************************************** Title: Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty Author: Ian Stewart Category: Audiobook Narrated By: Kris Dyer Duration: 11:20:20 Type: MP3 Size: 623.1 MB Bitrate: 128 Kb/s ************************************************************************************** ***************************************:~Info~:*************************************** ************************************************************************************** Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It’s no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty. However, over the centuries pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realised how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power. Best-selling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty. ************************************************************************************** *********** If you enjoy, please support the author by purchasing the book *********** *************************************************************************************