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• Title:Do dice play God? : the mathematics of uncertainty / Ian Stewart.
  
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• Author/Creator:Stewart, Ian, 1945- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Basic Books, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA273 .S74 2019b
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Probabilities--Popular works.
  Chaotic behavior in systems--Popular works.
  
• Edition:First US edition.
  
• Description:292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Bestselling 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.
  Life is full of uncertainty-- indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact-- and humans are terrible at guessing. Stewart reveals that, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some of the tools we need to better manage the uncertainty that pervades our lives. From forecasting, to medical research, to figuring out how to win Let's Make a Deal, he provides a tour of what we can know, and what we never will. -- adapted from jacket
  
• Notes:"Originally published in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781541699472 (hardcover)
  1541699475 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Six Ages of Uncertainty
  2. Reading the Entrails
  3. Roll of the Dice
  4. Toss of a Coin
  5. Too Much Information
  6. Fallacies and Paradoxes
  7. Social Physics
  8. How Certain are You?
  9. Law and Disorder
  10. Unpredicting the Predictable
  11. Weather Factory
  12. Remedial Measures
  13. Financial Fortune-Telling
  14. Our Bayesian Brain
  15. Quantum Uncertainty
  16. Do Dice Play God?
  17. Exploiting Uncertainty
  18. Unknown Unknowns.