The Probabilistic Revolution
Ideas in History
$103.31
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
14 March 1990
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262610629 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262610620 |
| Author: | Lorenz Krüger, Lorraine Daston, Michael Heidelberger |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 14 March 1990 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
These two volumes come close to the best that can be achieved on the topics and the period covered. They contain a mine of historical and philosophical material. You can dip in almost anywhere and be interested.—Nature
These two volumes come close to the best that can be achieved on the topics and the period covered. They contain a mine of historical and philosophical material. You can dip in almost anywhere and be interested.—Nature * Reviews *
About The Author
Lorenz Krüger
Lorenz Kr ger is a philosopher of science at G ttingen University.Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the coauthor (with Katharine Park) of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and (with Peter Galison) Objectivity and the editor of Things that Talk- Object Lessons from Art and Science, all three published by Zone Books.Michael Heidelberger is a philosopher of science at G ttingen University.
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