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Chance fills every day of our lives and affects every decision we make. Yet, for something woven so closely into the fabric of our being, we are not very good at thinking about uncertainty and risk. In this lively and engaging book, Andrew C. A. Elliott asks why this is so. He picks at the threads and, in showing how our world is built on probability rather than certainty, he identifies five obstacles to thinking about uncertainty that confuse us time after time. Elliott takes us into the casino
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- Author
- Andrew C. A. Elliott
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192639929
- Category
- mathematics
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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