The Drunkard's Walk : : how Randomness Rules our Lives
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Call Number: 519.2 Ml, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Mathematics / Miscellaneous
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch
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An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.
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stop making plans- randomness rules submitted by kath on August 22, 2023, 12:51pm What an interesting book! A fabulous collection of statistics stories related to randomness. Short histories of Pascal and the triangle, Bernoulli, Cardano.
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307275172
9780375424045
0375424040
SUBJECTS
Random variables.
Probabilities.
Chance.