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| Critically analyzes the role of chance and random events, forces, and factors in shaping human existence, in a readable study of how the mathematical laws of randomness control the world around us. By the author of <IT>Feynman's Rainbow<RO>. Read by Sean Pratt. Book available. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Leonard Mlodinow |
| Nonfiction Subcategory: |
Logic & Brain Teasers |
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Games |
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Professional Reviews
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Johnson, George, New York Times Book Review: "Mlodinow...writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists like Jakob Bernouli, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Thomas Bayes. The result is a readable crash course in randomness and statistics that includes the clearest explanation I've encountered of the Monty Hall problem...." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Compact Disc
- Unabridged
- June 01, 2009
- Gildan Audio
- 6"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.46 lbs.
- 9781596592797
, - Hardcover
- 252
- May 13, 2008
- Pantheon Books
- 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1"(d), 1.1 lbs.
- 9780375424045
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 252
- May 05, 2009
- Vintage Books
- 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.45 lbs.
- 9780307275172
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