How to predict everything :
Poundstone, William
How to predict everything : the formula transforming what we know about life and the universe by William Poundstone - London : Oneworld, ©2019 - x, 306 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
This book includes an index.
Part I: Consider the Lemming-- How to predict everything ; Riddle of sphinx ; The minister of Tunbridge Wells ; A history of grim reckoning ; Twelve reasons why the doomsday argument is wrong ; Twenty-four dogs in Albuquerque ; Baby names and bomb fragments ; Sleeping beauty ; The presumptuous philosopher ; Tarzan meets Jane ; The shooting room ; The metaphysics of gumball machines Part II: Life, Mind, Universe-- The simulation hypothesis ; The fermi question ; The princess in the tower ; Two Questions for an extraterrestrial ; Pandora's Box ; Life and death in many words ; 1/137 ; Summoning the demon ; You are here
9781786077561
Forecasting
Prediction (Logic)
Prediction theory
Prediction (Psychology)
003.2 / POU-H
How to predict everything : the formula transforming what we know about life and the universe by William Poundstone - London : Oneworld, ©2019 - x, 306 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
This book includes an index.
Part I: Consider the Lemming-- How to predict everything ; Riddle of sphinx ; The minister of Tunbridge Wells ; A history of grim reckoning ; Twelve reasons why the doomsday argument is wrong ; Twenty-four dogs in Albuquerque ; Baby names and bomb fragments ; Sleeping beauty ; The presumptuous philosopher ; Tarzan meets Jane ; The shooting room ; The metaphysics of gumball machines Part II: Life, Mind, Universe-- The simulation hypothesis ; The fermi question ; The princess in the tower ; Two Questions for an extraterrestrial ; Pandora's Box ; Life and death in many words ; 1/137 ; Summoning the demon ; You are here
9781786077561
Forecasting
Prediction (Logic)
Prediction theory
Prediction (Psychology)
003.2 / POU-H