by Fernando Corbalán, Gerardo Sanz · RBA. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447369744
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La conquista del azar» is the popular mathematics essay by Fernando Corbalán and Gerardo Sanz, published by RBA in hardcover (151 pages, in Spanish).
It explains how mathematics reduces chance to numbers and turns doubts into calculable probabilities. It traces the history of that process, from absolute certainty and radical doubt to a world of more or less favorable possibilities, and asks whether chance can be predicted or tamed and its relationship with lotteries.
Published in 2010, it belongs to the collection 'El mundo es matemático' and includes bibliography and index.
For readers interested in popular mathematics and the history of science.
