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The doomsday calculation, how an equation that predicts the future is transforming everything we know about life and the universe, William Poundstone

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The doomsday calculation, how an equation that predicts the future is transforming everything we know about life and the universe, William Poundstone
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The doomsday calculation
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bibliography
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1101988935
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William Poundstone
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how an equation that predicts the future is transforming everything we know about life and the universe
Summary
Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before, and it is being used in contemporary thought to answer questions about human existence
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