The Drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives /
Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954-
The Drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2009. - xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
Peering through the eyepiece of randomness -- The laws of truths and half-truths -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities -- Tracking the pathways to success -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers -- False positives and positive fallacies -- Measurement and the law of errors -- The order in chaos -- Illusions of patterns and patterns of illusion -- The drunkard's walk.
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.
9780307275172 0307275175
Random variables.
Probabilities.
Chance.
Variables aleatorias
Probabilidades
QA 273 / M685d 2009
519.2
The Drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2009. - xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
Peering through the eyepiece of randomness -- The laws of truths and half-truths -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities -- Tracking the pathways to success -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers -- False positives and positive fallacies -- Measurement and the law of errors -- The order in chaos -- Illusions of patterns and patterns of illusion -- The drunkard's walk.
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.
9780307275172 0307275175
Random variables.
Probabilities.
Chance.
Variables aleatorias
Probabilidades
QA 273 / M685d 2009
519.2