Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty and Lorenz Kruger. The Empire of Chance. How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 340. ISBN 0-521-33115-3. £32.50 [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Science 24 (1):124-126 (1991)
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