Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
| Publicat: |
New York ; Chichester ; Brisbane [etc.] :
J. Wiley
C 1996.
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| Nota: |
Le point de vue de l'éditeur. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley032/96033861.html Informations biographiques sur l'auteur. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley041/96033861.html Publié pour la première fois en édition brochée en 1998 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Taula de continguts:
- To 1200: beginnings
- The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice
- As easy as I, II, III
- 1200-1700: a thousand outstanding facts
- The Renaissance gambler
- The French connection
- The remarkable notions of the remarkable notions man
- 1700-1900: measurement unlimited
- Considering the nature of man
- The search for moral certainty
- The supreme law of unreason
- The man with the sprained brain
- Peapods and perils
- The fabric of felicity
- 1900-1960: clouds of vagueness and the demand for precision
- The measure of our ignorance
- The radically distinct notion
- The man who counted everything except calories
- The strange case of the anonymous stockbroker
- Degrees of belief: exploring uncertainty
- The failure of invariance
- The theory police
- The fantastic system of side bets
- Awaiting the wildness