Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else (Paperback, First Trade Paper ed)

In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory--the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications. What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance, you'll learn to increase your odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market. For thousands of years, the twin forces of chance and mischance have beguiled humanity like none other. Why does fortune smile on some people, and smirk on others? What is luck, and why does it so often visit the undeserving? How can we predict the random events happening around us? Even better, how can we manipulate them? In this delightful and lucid voyage through the realm of the random, Dr. Aczel once again makes higher mathematics intelligible to us.

General

Imprint:	Thunder's Mouth Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	December 2005
Authors:	Amir Aczel
Dimensions:	191 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
Edition:	First Trade Paper ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-56025-794-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > General
LSN:	1-56025-794-6
Barcode:	9781560257943

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