The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context Book 12)
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Lorraine Daston, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, John Beatty, Lorenz Kruger
The Empire of Chance explores how probability changed science and everyday life. Part of the Ideas in Context series, this collaborative work brings together perspectives from Gerd Gigerenzer, Lorraine Daston, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, John Beatty, and Lorenz Kruger.
About This Book
The Empire of Chance examines the role of probability in the development of science and in everyday life.
Its focus is the changing influence of probabilistic thinking and the ways it has shaped approaches to uncertainty.
Written by Gerd Gigerenzer, Lorraine Daston, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, John Beatty, and Lorenz Kruger, the book brings together multiple scholarly perspectives.
Part of the Ideas in Context series, this work presents probability as an important concept in intellectual and practical life.
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