by Ivar Ekeland · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474324327
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«Al azar: la suerte, la ciencia y el mundo» is Ivar Ekeland's popular science essay, published by Gedisa in paperback (192 pages).
Ekeland uses a medieval Icelandic saga to explain the mathematical theory of chance: from classical probability calculus to chaos theory, via statistics, entropy, fractals and Brownian motion. The work links luck, magic and destiny with the random, chaos and risk, from ancient Greece.
Volume 26 of Gedisa's Límites de la Ciencia collection, originally published in 1992. The text is in Spanish.
Recommended for readers curious about popular science, mathematics and the philosophy of science.
