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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 2017
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- Title
- Reasoning about Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics
- Author
- Ambegaokar, Vinay
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486807010
- ISBN 13
- 9780486807010
- Item weight
- 1 pound
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.
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About the Author
Vinay Ambegaokar is Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He is the 2015 recipient of the prestigious John Bardeen Prize for his theoretical research in the area of superconductivity.
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