The doomsday calculation : how an equation that predicts the future is transforming everything we know about life and the universe
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
150.15195/POUNDSTONE,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316440707, 0316440701 :, 0316440701, 9780316440707
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before, and it is being used in contemporary thought to answer questions about human existence