(Išleidimo metai: 05-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226843117)
Explores the implications of chance and uncertainty in social theory and offers a new interpretation of the sociological canon. Since the founding of the discipline, sociologists have endeavored to understand the structures of group...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226843131)
Since the founding of the discipline, sociologists have endeavored to understand the structures of groups, organizations, and societies and how these entities condition our behavior. While some of the foundational theorists in the discipline saw the...Daugiau...
Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency. Alongs...Daugiau...
The Art of UncertaintyIn lucid, lively prose, Spiegelhalter guides us through the principles of probability, illustrating how they can help us think more analytically about everything from medical advice to sports to climate change forecasts. He demo...Daugiau...
This volume centres the notion of chance in education as a key concept in contemporary education relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments and discusses the impact that the historical des...Daugiau...
This captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world (Financial Times) is both empowering (The New Statesman, UK) and compelling (New Scientist) as it challenges our mos...Daugiau...
This book offers a gentle yet rigorous introduction to probability theory, with a special focus on finite probability spaces. Drawing inspiration from card games, casino games, mahjong, and two-up, it also delves into real-world applications such...Daugiau...
This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class popul...Daugiau...
This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class pop...Daugiau...
v. 2. Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingency. It aims to measure what the projective and pre...Daugiau...
Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingen...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jan-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Random House Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593484210)
With luck all around them in the form of four-leaf clovers, ladybugs and even a rainbow, Uni and the little girl embark on a magical adventure to find out whats at the end of the rainbow. With luck all around them in the form of four-leaf cl...Daugiau...
A social scientist and Atlantic writer challenges how we think our world worksand why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything. Illustrations. Maps. In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwel...Daugiau...
This volume centres the notion of chance in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desir...Daugiau...
Serija: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Aug-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781032414614)
This book explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing and other sports, and lotteries. It is also suitable as a textbook for an introductory course on probability. Numerous examples and end-...Daugiau...
Serija: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Aug-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781032414607)
Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Second Edition explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing and other sports, and lotteries. The book helps...Daugiau...
