Mathematics in games, sports, and gambling : the games people play /: the games people play. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronald J. Gould.
• Authors: Gould, Ronald
• Contents: Basic Probability ; Introduction; Of Dice and Men; Probability; The Laws That Govern Us; Poker Hands versus Batting Orders; Let’s Play for Money!; Is That Fair?; The Odds Are against Us; Things Vary; Conditional Expectation; ; The Game’s Afoot ; Applications to Games; Counting and Probability in Poker Hands; Roulette; Craps; Let’s Make a Deal — The Monty Hall Problem; Carnival Games; Other Casino Games; Backgammon; ; Repeated Play; Introduction; Binomial Coefficients; The Binomial Distribution; The Poisson Distribution; Streaks—Are They Real?; Betting Strategies; The Gambler’s Ruin; ; Card Tricks and More; Introduction; The Five-Card Trick; The Two-Deck Matching Game; More Tricks; The Paintball Wars; ; Dealing with Data; Introduction; Batting Averages and Simpson’s Paradox; NFL Passer Ratings; Viewing Data — Simple Graphs; Confidence in Our Estimates; Measuring Differences in Performance; ; Testing and Relationships; Introduction; Suzuki versus Pujols; I’ll Decide If I Believe That; Are the Old Adages True?; How Good Are Certain Measurements?; Arguing over Outstanding Performances; A Last Look at Comparisons; ; Games and Puzzles; Introduction; Number Arrays; The Tower of Hanoi; Instant Insanity; Lights Out; Peg Games; Puzzles on the Chessboard; Guarini’s Problem; Martin Gardner’s No 3-in-a-Line Problem; The Knight’s Tour; Domination and Independence; Attacking Placements and Independence; ; Combinatorial Games; Introduction to Combinatorial Games; Subtraction Games; Nim; Games as Digraphs; Blue-Red Hackenbush; Green Hackenbush; Games as Numbers; More about Nimbers; ; Appendix; Review of Elementary Set Theory; Relations and Functions; Standard Normal Distribution Table; Student’s t-Distribution; Solutions to Problems; Solutions to Selected Exercises; Bibliography; ; Index;
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 510; Mathematical analysis; Problem solving -- Mathematical models; Games -- Mathematics; Sports -- Mathematics; Gambling -- Mathematics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498719544; 9781498719537; 9781498719551
• Related ISBNs: 9781498719520
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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