Reasoning about luck : probability and its uses in physics

Author(s)

• Ambegaokar, Vinay

Bibliographic Information

Reasoning about luck : probability and its uses in physics

Vinay Ambegaokar

Dover Publications, c2017

• : pbk

Note

"This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Cambridge University Press, New York, in 1996. A brief addendum is also new to this Dover edition"--T.p. verso

Summary: "Praised by the American Journal of Physics as "an outstanding and ambitious textbook for nonscience majors," this book introduces the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics. Only some familiarity with basic algebra is needed to understand explanations of many basic concepts"--Provided by publisher

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Includes index

Details

• NCID: BB24793042
• ISBN:
  • 9780486807010
• LCCN: 2016038278
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Mineola, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 234 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC174.8
  • DC23 : 530.15/92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Statistical physics
  • LCSH : Probability measures