cover image Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know about the Future

Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know about the Future

John L. Casti, J. L. Casti. Quill, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-688-11914-0

This lively series of lectures on everyday systems (like weather forecasting and the stock market) that refuse to yield to predictability shakes the reputation of mathematics as the irresistible force of scientific exploration. Illustrations. (Sept.)