Certain Chance

Certain Chance
Author: Pedro Salinas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre:
ISBN: 9780838754573

As he develops these images and themes, Salinas often includes self-conscious reflections on the nature of poetic expression, the battle against the blank page, the rage for order."--BOOK JACKET.

Ten Great Ideas about Chance

Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Author: Persi Diaconis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691196397

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.

A Philosophical Guide to Chance

A Philosophical Guide to Chance
Author: Toby Handfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107080010

It is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are time-symmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. Toby Handfield engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge.

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability
Author: David F. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 110824498X

This classroom-tested textbook is an introduction to probability theory, with the right balance between mathematical precision, probabilistic intuition, and concrete applications. Introduction to Probability covers the material precisely, while avoiding excessive technical details. After introducing the basic vocabulary of randomness, including events, probabilities, and random variables, the text offers the reader a first glimpse of the major theorems of the subject: the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. The important probability distributions are introduced organically as they arise from applications. The discrete and continuous sides of probability are treated together to emphasize their similarities. Intended for students with a calculus background, the text teaches not only the nuts and bolts of probability theory and how to solve specific problems, but also why the methods of solution work.

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability
Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1466575573

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forests and Waters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1922
Genre: Forests and forestry
ISBN:

Physics

Physics
Author: Norman Robert Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1920
Genre: Physics
ISBN:

Psychology

Psychology
Author: Robert Sessions Woodworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1921
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: