Probabilistic Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-262-61063-6
Verlag: MIT University Press Group Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 480 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: The MIT Press

This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful.Lorenz Krüger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kruger, Lorenz

Krüger, Lorenz

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Morgan, Mary S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan, Mary S
Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.

Gigerenzer, Gerd
Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Partner in Simply Rational—The Institute for Decisions. He is the author of Calculated Risks, among other books, and the coeditor of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Heuristics and the Law, both published by the MIT Press.

Krüger, Lorenz
Lorenz Krü ger is a philosopher of science at Gö ttingen University.

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. He is coeditor (with Reinhard Selten) of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox (MIT Press, 2001).