Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Carla Hale won the 2011 Spur Award

won the 2011 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Novel

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Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Carla Hale won the 2011 Spur AwardThis book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to