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A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomnessOur 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.

Who reads Chances Are-- : Adventures in Probability?

Author

Michael Kaplan

Publisher

Penguin USA, Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781440684517

Category

mathematics

Subjects

Mathematics, Stem

Rating

3.51 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14