The cover would have been much more attractive had the subtitle been included. The text was designed for a continuing education class to bring rather well-prepared and well-motivated students to the ideas of modern quantum physics through the classical physics with which they were assumed to be familiar.

The chapter titles tell the story in broad outline: 1. The children of Democritus (prediction in science), 2. The laws of chance (the theory of probability), 3. Gaussian deviations (the theory of physical measurements), 4. Maxwell, or probabilities as a matter of ignorance, 5. Boltzmann, or probabilities as a matter of conviction (statistical physics), 6. Poincaré, or deterministic chaos (sensitivity to initial conditions), 7. Bohr, or chance unavoidable (quantum mechanics), 8. Inseparable photons (the EPR paradox), and 9. Conclusions (how chance does yeoman's service).

The first six chapters lay the foundation for the last two where the work at Orsay is described....

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