Chances Are . . . - Adventures in Probability (Paperback)

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 settlingareluctantlyafor likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. "Chances Are" is the story of manas millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableato 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 applicationsafrom gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.

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