Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories /: seventeen short stories. (2018)
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- Book
- Title:
- Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories /: seventeen short stories. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories
- Further Information:
- Note: By Henk Tijms, Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics.
- Authors:
- Tijms, H. C
- Contents:
- What is Casino Credit Worth? One Hundred Prisoners: Freedom or Death Birthday Surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles Was the Champions League Rigged? Benford Goes to the Casino Surprising Card Games, or, It's All in the Cards The Lost Boarding Pass and the Seven Dwarfs Monte Carlo Simulation and Probability: The Interface Lotto Nonsense: the World is Asking to be Deceived March Madness Grips the USA Coincidences and Impossibilities Gambler's Fallacy Euler's Number e is Everywhere The 10 Most Beautiful Formulas in Probability Beating the Odds on the Lottery Investing and Gambling with Kelly To Stop or Not to Stop? That is the Question
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 519.2
Probabilities -- Popular works
Probabilities -- Problems, exercises, etc - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429815485
0429815484 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.329031
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