Description: These two books, written within a year of one another are a couplet that together give an engaging picture of how we became the numerate society that we are. Risk and the means to measure it are the topics presented in this pair of readable, highly researched books by authors who know their subjects well. 1: Against the Gods - The Remarkable Story of Risk: Peter L.Bernstein John Wiley and Sons: Peter Bernstein's book is a great read weaving as it does history and mathematics into a "...story of a group of thinkers whose remarkable vision revealed how to put the future at the service of present. By showing the world how to understand risk, measure it, and weigh its consequences, they converted risk-taking into one of the prime catalysts that drives modern Western society." The book is in Line New Condition with an intact unmarked dust cover and the pages are crisp, unmarked, with no highlights, folds or creases. 2: The Measure of Reality - Quantification and Western Society; 1250 - 1600: Alfred W. Crosby Cambridge University Press The author brings a wealth of craft and skill to what in other hands might be dry study on the topic of quantitative thought. Instead the reader is given a insightful and richly drawn read on the momentous shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "This shift made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements of time and space and mathematical technique - but equally and simultaneously music and painting..."
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Book Title: 1: Against The Gods 2: The Measure of Reality
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: 1: Wiley 2: Cambridge
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
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Edition: First Edition
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Publication Year: 2014
Type: Historical
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1990s
Author: Mixed Authors
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Finance, Historical, History
Topic: ABCs/Numbers, Accounting, Ancient World, Applied Technology, Astrology, Astronomy, Computing, Dice Games, Gambling, Game Theory, Graphic Design, Insurance, Investment, Mathematics, Personal Finance, Practical Skills, Professional Finance, Stock Exchange, Stocks
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
