Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance

By Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  • Release Date: 2012-07-11
  • Genre: Social Science

Book Synopsis

Acclaimed poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes a fresh, sobering look at our faith in statistics, our desire to predict the future, and our dependence on fortuitousness. Tracing the interface between chance and probability in medical diagnostics, risk models, economics, and the fluctuations of financial markets, Fatal Numbers goes straight to the heart of what it means  to live, plan, and make decisions in a globalized, digitized, hyperlinked, science-driven, and uncertain world ...

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