Uncertain Science . Uncertain World

Pollack, Henry N.

ISBN 10: 0521619106 / ISBN 13: 9780521619103

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

About this Item

8vo, 243 pp., Front free endpaper corner clipped, else fine.

Seller Inventory # 072633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncertain Science . Uncertain World
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521619106
• ISBN 13: 9780521619103
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Nearly fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Engineering

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Synopsis

Scientific uncertainty puzzles many people. The confusion arises when scientists have more than one answer, and disagree among themselves. By acquainting readers with the ways that uncertainty arises in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of uncertainty, and how they reach conclusions in the face of uncertainty, this book enables them to confidently evaluate uncertainty from their own perspectives, in terms of their experiences. Henry N. Pollack is a professor of Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan. He has published extensively in the field of geophysics. This is his first popular science book.

About the Author

Henry N. Pollack, is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.