The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity
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For over two millennia, Aristotle's logic has ruled over the thinking of western intellectuals. All precise theories, all scientific models, even models of the process of thinking itself, have in principle conformed to the straightjacket of logic. But from its shady beginnings devising gambling strategies and counting corpses in medieval London, probability theory and statistical inference now emerge as better foundations for scientificmodels, especially those of the process of thinking and as essential ingredients of theoretical mathematics, even the foundations of mathematics itself. We propose that this sea change in our perspective will affect virtually all of mathematics in the next century.
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Abstract the Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity
For over two millennia, Aristotle's logic has ruled over the thinking of western intellectuals. All precise theories, all scienti c models, even models of the process of thinking itself, have in principle conformed to the straightjacket of logic. But from its shady beginnings devising gambling strategies and counting corpses in medieval London, probability theory and statistical inference now e...
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