
Название: Probability and statistics for geophysical processes
Автор: Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Издательство: National Technical University of Athens
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 161
Размер: 1.9 mb
Язык: English
Commonly, probability is regarded to be a branch of applied mathematics that provides tools for data analysis. Nonetheless, probability is a more general concept that helps shape a consistent, realistic and powerful view of the world. Historically, the modern science was initiated from deterministic views of the world, in which probability had a marginal role for peculiar unpredictable phenomena. However, in the turn of the nineteenth century, radical developments in physics, and particularly thermodynamics, dynamical systems and quantum physics, as well as in mathematics has given the probability theory a central role in the scientific scene, in the understanding and the modelling of natural phenomena.