The how randomness rules our lives Mlodinow, Leonard 1954- creator text bibliography nyu New York Vintage Books 2009 1st Vintage Books ed. monographic eng spa

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xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize. Peering through the eyepiece of randomness -- The laws of truths and half-truths -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities -- Tracking the pathways to success -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers -- False positives and positive fallacies -- Measurement and the law of errors -- The order in chaos -- Illusions of patterns and patterns of illusion -- The drunkard's walk. Leonard Mlodinow. Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index. Random variables Probabilities Chance Variables aleatorias Probabilidades QA 273 M685d 2009 519.2 9780307275172 0307275175 THM 091210 20230410124105.0 spa