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The Drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2009.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780307275172
  • 0307275175
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.2
LOC classification:
  • QA 273 M685d 2009
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) QA 273 M685d 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000072941

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.

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