{"product_id":"chances-are-adventures-in-probability-9780143038344","title":"Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity's struggle against randomness\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling--reluctantly--for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. \u003ci\u003eChances Are\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of man's millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable--to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applications--from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.36w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143038344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Kaplan studied European history at Harvard and Oxford. After a stint as producer\/director at WGBH, he has been an award-winning writer and filmmaker working abroad for clients including governments, corporations, museums, and charities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Kaplan trained as a classical archaeologist and has taught math, biology, Greek, Latin, and history.She and her husband, Robert, run the Math Circle, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to joyous participatory learning, and are the authors of \u003cb\u003eThe Art of the Infinite\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43781791121523,"sku":"9.78014E+12","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_4d1b65f2-d67b-439c-9792-9f4d32c8c720.jpg?v=1757594874","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/chances-are-adventures-in-probability-9780143038344","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}