Understanding Chance – And How it Changed the World
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From psychology to physics, and from insurance to weather forecasting, everything is “chancy”. Although chance made everything uncertain and destroyed the idea of a perfectly predictable world, the game changed when mathematicians invented probability theory about 200 years ago.
In this lecture Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy will give a broad sweep of the main ideas behind probability theory and statistics. The distance learning modules he has created (10 English, 10 Urdu) have just been uploaded here.