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What is Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability about?
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 p
Who reads Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kaplan, Michael; Kaplan, Ellen
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781440684517
- Category
- mathematics
- Subjects
- Science, Engineering, Mathematics
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (49 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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