Searching for Certainty - John L. Casti

Searching for Certainty

What Science Can Know About the Future

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Buch | Softcover
496 Seiten
1993
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-10455-3 (ISBN)
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An overview of the prediction game which takes readers on a journey through the worlds of probability, chance and chaos, and investigates developmental biology, modern warfare, weather and climate prediction, mathematics, economics and games of chance. By the author of "Paradigms Lost".
This comprehensive overview of the prediction game takes readers on a journey through the worlds of probability, chance and chaos, and investigates developmental biology, modern warfare, weather and climate prediction, mathematics, economics and games of chance. The author of "Paradigms Lost" asks a variety of intriguing questions. Does any method exist to foresee stock-market trends? Can warfare be predicted and avoided? Why can't we get a foolproof forecast for the weekend weather on Tuesday? Are such concepts as nuclear winter and the greenhouse effect real threats to humanity? And is mathematics, the queen of sciences, really as infallible as it's cracked up to be?

John L. Casti is a member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. He divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Vienna.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.4.1993
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 125 x 198 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-349-10455-7 / 0349104557
ISBN-13 978-0-349-10455-3 / 9780349104553
Zustand Neuware
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