Author: Lorenz Kra1/4ger
Publisher: Bradford Books
ISBN: 9780262610636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful. Lorenz KrA¼ger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.
The Probabilistic Revolution: Ideas in the sciences
Author: Lorenz Kra1/4ger
Publisher: Bradford Books
ISBN: 9780262610636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful. Lorenz KrA¼ger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.
Publisher: Bradford Books
ISBN: 9780262610636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful. Lorenz KrA¼ger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.
The probabilistic revolution. 2. Ideas in the sciences
Author: Lorenz Krüger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
The Probabilistic Revolution
Author: Lorenz Krüger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Probabilistic Revolution
Author: Lorenz Krüger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780262610629
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780262610629
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Probabilistic Revolution
Author: Lorenz Krüger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1
Author: Lorenz Kruger
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262610620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Probability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sciences. Chance, indeterminism, and statistical inference have radically and globally transformed the sciences in a "probabilistic revolution." This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is less concerned with specific technical discoveries than with locating the probability revolution historically within a larger framework of ideas. There is no comparable study that treats the rise of probability and statistics in such scope and depth. The contributors - scientists, historians and philosophers from eight countries - make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful, and how the rejection of uniform causality by quantum physics, the stochastic nature of evolutionary biology, the indeterminisms of human psychology, and the random processes of many economic activities are all manifestations of an underlying unifying concept. Volume 1 opens with provocative essays on scientific revolutions in general and the probabilistic revolution in particular by Thomas S. Kuhn, I. Bernard Cohen, and Ian Hacking. Other authors discuss the evolution of philosophical ideas about probability and their articulation and elaboration in the mathematics of the nineteenth century and describe the first applications of techniques of statistical inference during that century: Topics include the uses and abuses of official statistics by the bureaucrats of France, England, and Prussia; the use - or neglect - of statistics by nascent sociologists, demographers, and insurance actuaries; and the emergence of statistical methodologies in fields ranging from social reform to agricultural production. The emphasis in volume 2 is on the more recent scientific advances of the probabilistic approach in various natural and social sciences, from "random walks" in the stock market to random drift in natural selection, and from indeterminate events at the atomic level to unpredictable actions at the human level.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262610620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Probability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sciences. Chance, indeterminism, and statistical inference have radically and globally transformed the sciences in a "probabilistic revolution." This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is less concerned with specific technical discoveries than with locating the probability revolution historically within a larger framework of ideas. There is no comparable study that treats the rise of probability and statistics in such scope and depth. The contributors - scientists, historians and philosophers from eight countries - make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful, and how the rejection of uniform causality by quantum physics, the stochastic nature of evolutionary biology, the indeterminisms of human psychology, and the random processes of many economic activities are all manifestations of an underlying unifying concept. Volume 1 opens with provocative essays on scientific revolutions in general and the probabilistic revolution in particular by Thomas S. Kuhn, I. Bernard Cohen, and Ian Hacking. Other authors discuss the evolution of philosophical ideas about probability and their articulation and elaboration in the mathematics of the nineteenth century and describe the first applications of techniques of statistical inference during that century: Topics include the uses and abuses of official statistics by the bureaucrats of France, England, and Prussia; the use - or neglect - of statistics by nascent sociologists, demographers, and insurance actuaries; and the emergence of statistical methodologies in fields ranging from social reform to agricultural production. The emphasis in volume 2 is on the more recent scientific advances of the probabilistic approach in various natural and social sciences, from "random walks" in the stock market to random drift in natural selection, and from indeterminate events at the atomic level to unpredictable actions at the human level.
The Probabilistic Revolution
Author: Lorenz Krüger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Emergence of Probability
Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521318037
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521318037
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.
The Empire of Chance
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.