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 an...(展开全部)

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 an...(展开全部)

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 an...(展开全部)

For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scie...(展开全部)

厄恩斯特•夏欧伯，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活中现代技术的社会和政治影响。他也担任国际理论心理学学会（ISTP）主席。 夏洛特•霍霍尔特，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活的社会心理学。 译者简介：王晓焘，毕业于南京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位。现为南京师范大学社会学与社会工作系讲师，研究方向为家庭社会学，社会学研究方法。主持国家社科基金青年项目1项；在《社会》《青年研究》等学术期刊发表学术论文多篇。

厄恩斯特•夏欧伯，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活中现代技术的社会和政治影响。他也担任国际理论心理学学会（ISTP）主席。 夏洛特•霍霍尔特，丹麦罗斯基勒大学人与技术系教授，研究方向为日常生活的社会心理学。 译者简介：王晓焘，毕业于南京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位。现为南京师范大学社会学与社会工作系讲师，研究方向为家庭社会学，社会学研究方法。主持国家社科基金青年项目1项；在《社会》《青年研究》等学术期刊发表学术论文多篇。