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The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1: Ideas in History

The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1: Ideas in History

Kruger, Lorenz
Daston, Lorraine
Heidelberger, Michael

Paperback

Series: Probabilistic Revolution, Book 1

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ISBN10: 0262610620
ISBN13: 9780262610629
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 14 1990
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Probability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sciences. Chance, indeterminism, and statistical inference have radically and globally transformed the sciences in a probabilistic revolution. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is less concerned with specific technical discoveries than with locating the probability revolution historically within a larger framework of ideas. There is no comparable study that treats the rise of probability and statistics in such scope and depth.

The contributors - scientists, historians and philosophers from eight countries - make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful, and how the rejection of uniform causality by quantum physics, the stochastic nature of evolutionary biology, the indeterminisms of human psychology, and the random processes of many economic activities are all manifestations of an underlying unifying concept.

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