{"product_id":"9781781259443","title":"Do Dice Play God? : The Mathematics of Uncertainty","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Stewart, Ian, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/08\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, Charts, graphs and illustrations throughout,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Profile Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Profile Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Popular mathematics, Probability \u0026amp; statistics\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781781259443\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eUncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty - we prefer the surprise party to the surprise asteroid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power. Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35547237646489,"sku":"9781781259443","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781781259443.jpg?v=1601395260","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781781259443","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}