Warren Weaver (1894–1978)
Auteur de Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability
Œuvres de Warren Weaver
Scene of Change a Lifetime in American S 5 exemplaires
U.S. philanthropic foundations; their history, structure, management, and record (1967) 5 exemplaires
A great age for science 1 exemplaire
Making our Government work;: The challenge of American citizenship (Challenge books) (1964) 1 exemplaire
A Tangled Web 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Théorie mathématique de la communication (Les Classiques des sciences humaines) (1948) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 514 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1894-07-17
- Date de décès
- 1978-11-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Reedsburg, Wisconsin, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New Milford, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Professions
- scientist
mathematician - Prix et distinctions
- Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1964)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 272
- Popularité
- #85,118
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 2
Probability theory begins with games of "chance". Professor Weaver takes us back, then advances through the contributions of great thinkers, step by step, to the future of thinking. Drawing upon history, the writings of Pascal, Godel, Langer, Bernoulli, and a host of others, the book explains permutations, independent events, expectation, law of averages, Chebychev's theorem, law of large numbers, and probability of distributions. Very helpful on understanding "coincidence" [so difficult for us as pattern-seeking creatures]. He tries to show by examples that this type of thinking is "realistic" and valuable. We are betting we'll study our odds, and will make the best of it.… (plus d'informations)