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The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.017
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2008English
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“The Art of the Probable” addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thematic, and rhetorical features that imaginative literature shares with texts in the history of probability.

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