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The Taming of Chance
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1990
- Pages
- Pages 264
Between 1820 and 1840 the bureaus of Europe discovered counting, and what followed Ian Hacking calls the avalanche of printed numbers: suicides tallied in Paris, thefts in Prussia, the vagrant, the prostitute, the mad, sorted into columns for the first time. What unsettled the clerks was the steadiness.
The most decisive conceptual event of twentieth century physics has been the discovery that the world is not deterministic.
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