Hacking, Ian
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
$30.00 Add to cartHistorical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Series on Statistical & Probabilistic Mathematics
- Author: Hacking, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0521685575
- Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
$33.00 Add to cartIn this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best sel… [more below]
- Series: Ideas in Context #17
- Author: Hacking, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0521388848
- Language: English
