Cover art for Ideas in Context
Published
Cambridge University Press, October 1990
ISBN
9780521398381
Format
Softcover, 360 pages
Dimensions
22.8cm × 15.9cm × 2.2cm

Ideas in Context Series Number 12: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life by

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This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball.

Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society.

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