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L'imprévisible est un élément perturbateur puisqu'il introduit une donnée nouvelle qui ruine toute prédiction et qui fait vaciller les projets. On le redoute car il est difficile d'en limiter l'impact et les conséquences. Les sociétés de leur côté, sous couvert de protection et de sécurité, tentent de réguler, de surveiller, de délimiter, de cloisonner. Elles essaient de juguler ce qui leur échappe et ce qui risque de les déstabiliser. Dans le domaine artistique, en revanche, l'imprévisible n'est pas nécessairement envisagé de manière inquiétante ou négative. L'inconnu. l'inattendu, le déconcertant, le déroutant, le dérèglement des habitudes, la perturbation peuvent être au contraire des stimulants, donnant lieu à de nouvellesexpérimentations, des réorientations, de nouveaux élans. L'art parfois se nourrit des aléas, de ce qui n'est pas prévu. L'incontrôlé, l'imprévisible, l'aléatoire peuvent être des moteurs de création. Il s'agit alors d'accepter leur surgissement et de s'en servir. L'imprévisible se manifeste dans le présent et. naturellement, il est associé au futur. L'art comme la vie sont faits d'instants et d'événements imprévisibles. L'imprévisible est à la fois inquiétant. troublant, incontournable et déterminant.

Chance in art --- Aesthetics

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Ce livre rend compte des transformations épistémologiques du début du XXe siècle autour de l'étude du hasard et de l'étude des systèmes complexes du mathématicien Henri Poincaré. Des questions liées aux problèmes environnementaux ont surgi rapidement à la lecture de ses travaux. Pour lui, chaque partie de l'univers est liée avec toutes les autres.

Métaphysique --- Causation --- Chance --- Causalité --- Hasard --- Poincaré, Henri,

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Screening calls from her father's creditors, hiding his mail from her mother—being the child of a compulsive gambler wasn't easy, and Annette B. Dunlap thought for years that her experience was a singular one. In early adulthood, she was fortunate enough to learn that she was not unique, that other children had grown up with parents (usually fathers) addicted to gambling. But when she learned, shortly before her mother died, that her grandfather had also been involved in gambling, she realized the extent to which gambling was a part of her family history. As she delved further into the subject, she also discovered the extent to which gambling is, in her words, "a peculiarly Jewish addiction."Framing the issue of gambling in both historical and sociological terms, Dunlap examines the struggle between the "official" Jewish community—Jewish leaders have long either condemned or ignored the evils of gambling—and the significant number of everyday Jews who continue to gamble, many at a level that would be considered addictive. Gambling continues to be a serious problem within the Jewish community, Dunlap argues, regardless of whether the person is Orthodox or a Jew in name only.The Gambler's Daughter is both a personal story of a father's gambling addiction and a more general inquiry into the hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community. Readers who either live or have lived with an addictive family member will find the book useful, as will those students of Jewish social history interested in a long-ignored facet of American Jewish life.

Gambling --- Jews --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social life and customs. --- Dunlap, Annette, --- Dunlap, Annette B.,

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What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in playful, sometimes deceptive, ways to a fascinating array of speculative situations. Games of Russian roulette, problems involving the accumulation of insects on flypaper, and strategies for determining the odds of the underdog winning the World Series all reveal intriguing dimensions to the workings of probability. Over the years, Nahin, a veteran writer and teacher of the subject, has collected these and other favorite puzzles designed to instruct and entertain math enthusiasts of all backgrounds. If idiots A and B alternately take aim at each other with a six-shot revolver containing one bullet, what is the probability idiot A will win? What are the chances it will snow on your birthday in any given year? How can researchers use coin flipping and the laws of probability to obtain honest answers to embarrassing survey questions? The solutions are presented here in detail, and many contain a profound element of surprise. And some puzzles are beautiful illustrations of basic mathematical concepts: "The Blind Spider and the Fly," for example, is a clever variation of a "random walk" problem, and "Duelling Idiots" and "The Underdog and the World Series" are straightforward introductions to binomial distributions. Written in an informal way and containing a plethora of interesting historical material, Duelling Idiots is ideal for those who are fascinated by mathematics and the role it plays in everyday life and in our imaginations.

Probabilities --- Elementary Mathematics & Arithmetic --- Probabilities. --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk

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A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films' directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. Phillips begins by analyzing the works of George Romero, focusing on how the body is used cinematically to reflect the duality

Horror films --- History and criticism. --- Carpenter, John, --- Craven, Wes --- Romero, George A. --- Armitage, Frank, --- Carpenter, Johnny, --- Chance, James T., --- Chance, John T., --- Haight, Rip, --- Quatermass, Martin, --- Craven, Wesley Earl --- Criticism and interpretation.