Uncertain Chances

by Maurice S. Lee

Book Overview

The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and philosophical controversies while revolutionizing the sciences as probabilistic methods spread from mathematics, economics, and sociology to physics and evolutionary biology. Chance also became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199797579
• ISBN13: 9780199797578
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"