01805nam a2200337Ia 4500 20260803094228.0 251212s1998 xx 000 0 und d Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk / Peter L. Bernstein. Bernstein, Peter L. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. xi, 383 pages: illustrations 24 cm Includes bibliographic references and index 978-0-471-29563-1 Risk management Decision making CIR 368 B45a 1998 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 HED6232 in English College Library To 1200: beginnings -- The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice -- As easy as 1,2,3 -- 1200-1700: a thousand outstanding facts -- The Renaissance gambler -- The French connection -- The remarkable notions of the remarkable notions man -- 1700-1900:measurement unlimited -- Considering the nature of man -- The search for moral certainty -- The supreme law of unreason -- The man with the sprained brain -- Peapods and perils -- The fabric of felicity -- 1900-1960: clouds of vagueness and the demand for precision -- The measure of our ignorance -- The radically distinct notion -- The man who counted everything except calories -- The strange case of the anonymous stockbroker -- Degrees of belief: exploring uncertainty -- The failure of invariance -- The theory police -- The fantastic system of side bets -- Awaiting the wildness. 0 text unmediated volume lcc BK jpascua 2019-09-16 14:13:44 jpascua 2019-09-16 14:13:44 11422 11323 11323 0 0 ddc 0 0 HED HED HED 2025-12-21 CIR 368 B45a 1998 HED6232 2026-06-02 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK