ISBN 13 : 978-1400067930

Sommaire :
Part 1. Solon's warning
1. If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?
2. A bizarre accounting method
3. A mathematical mediation on history
4. Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual
5. Survival of the least fit : can evolution be fooled by randomness?
6. Skewness and asymmetry
7. The problem of induction

Part 2. Monkeys on typewriters
8. Too many millionaires next door
9. It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg
10.Loser takes all : on the nonlinearities of life
11. Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind

Part 3. Wax in my ears
12. Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box
13. Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism
14. Bacchus abandons Antony

Epilogue. Solon told you so
Postscript. Three afterthoughts in the shower.

Nbre volumes : 0

Langue : Anglais

Edition : 2ème

Lieu d'édition : USA

Localisation : Bibliothèque Campus de Nice

Support : Papier

Etat : Présent

Propriétaire : Bibliothèque