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Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future

Name: Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future
Author: John L. Casti
ISBN: 9780688089801

John L. Casti

496 pages

William Morrow & Co

Jan 1991

Hardcover

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This journey through randomness, prediction, and chaos investigates developmental biology, weather prediction, mathematics, economics, and games of chance, showing why some future prediction systems work better than others

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Pages 496

Publisher William Morrow & Co

Published 1991

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