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Bezig met laden... Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertaintydoor Ian Stewart
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The most relevant kind of math here is that of probability and statistics, and in informally describing it Stewart spends a goodly portion (but less than half) of this book, giving the Bayesian point of view its fair share of attention. He then moves on to discussions of jurisprudence, thermodynamics, chaos theory, meteorology, medical trials and diagnoses, economics and finance, neuroscience, and quantum physics. The last of these discussions includes a most noteworthy idea: "More recent work [than John Bell's theorem] suggests that certain types of chaotic dynamics might, in principle, offer a deterministic mechanism that underlies quantum uncertainty. ... [I]f chaos had been discovered before quantum theory, a deterministic view might have become the orthodox one." (p 224) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Uncertainty 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. We 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. Worse, 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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