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Bernoulli's fallacy : statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science / / Aubrey Clayton
| Bernoulli's fallacy : statistical illogic and the crisis of modern science / / Aubrey Clayton |
| Autore | Clayton Aubrey |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 519.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Probabilities - Philosophy - 19th century
Probabilities - Philosophy - 20th century Mathematical statistics - Philosophy Binomial distribution Law of large numbers MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Probabilities - Philosophy |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Bayesian statistics
frequentist statistics history of math history of statistics probability replication crisis statistics and science statistics |
| ISBN | 0-231-55335-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. What is probability? -- 2. The titular fallacy -- 3. Adolphe quetelet's bell curve bridge -- 4. The frequentist jihad -- 5. The quote-unquote logic of orthodox statistics -- 6. The replication crisis/opportunity -- 7. The way out. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554499403321 |
Clayton Aubrey
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh
| Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
| Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
| Disciplina | 516.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred North Whitehead
Baruch Spinoza Bodleian Library Copernicus Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclidean geometry Galileo Galilei Galileo Hobbes Johannes Kepler Kepler Platonic solids Proclus Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagorean theorem Spinoza Thales' theorem Thomas Hobbes Vatican Library book history geometric algebra golden ratio great books history of math history of mathematics history of the book lemma logic mathematical proofs music theory parallel postulate perspective plane geometry prime numbers |
| ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: AUTHOR -- Alexandria -- Elephantine -- Hypsicles -- Theon of Alexandria -- Stephanos the scribe -- Al-Hajjaj -- Adelard -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Marget Seymer her hand -- Edward Bernard -- Interlude -- II: SAGE -- Plato -- Proclus Diadochus -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom -- Christoph Clavius -- Xu Guangqi -- Blame not our author -- Baruch Spinoza -- Anne Lister -- Interlude -- III: HERO -- Petechonsis -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani -- Lady Geometria -- Piero della Francesca -- Euclid Speidell -- Isaac Newton -- Interlude -- IV: SHADOW AND MASK -- Mary Fairfax -- François Peyrard -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii -- Maggie and Tom -- Simson in Urdu -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath -- Max Ernst -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Notes on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554265903321 |
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Wardhaugh Benjamin
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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