A Hundred Years Ago. An Historical Sketch
Author | : James HUTTON (Author of "A Hundred Years Ago.".) |
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Author | : James HUTTON (Author of "A Hundred Years Ago.".) |
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Author | : James Hutton |
Publisher | : London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : England |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2020-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780371359266 |
Author | : James Hutton |
Publisher | : London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : James Hutton |
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Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Haigh |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0191636835 |
Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily imprecise and involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the understanding and management of probabilities is central to much work in the sciences and economics. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh introduces the ideas of probability and different philosophical approaches to probability, and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions, and goes on to discuss a wide range of applications in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts such as games and betting. He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Manuel De Landa |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0942299922 |
Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while engaging — in an entirely unprecedented manner — the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In each case, De Landa discloses the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress and, even more important, free of any deterministic source for its urban, institutional, and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West’s history, rather, is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter—energy itself. A Swerve Edition.
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Total Pages | : 610 |
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Total Pages | : 1656 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : English language |
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