A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy,
charting humanityas 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 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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