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Surprises in Probability - Seventeen Short Stories (Paperback)
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This book brings together a variety of probability applications
through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad
readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating
problem? What can Bayes' formula tell us about the chances of a
Champions League draw for soccer teams being rigged? How could
syndicates win millions of lottery dollars by buying a multitude of
tickets at the right time? What's the best way to manage your
betting bankroll in a game in which you have an edge? How to use
probability to debunk quacks and psychic mediums? How can the Monte
Carlo simulation be used to solve a wide variety of probability
problems? Are seven riffle shuffles of a standard deck of 52
playing cards enough for randomness? Provides seventeen engaging
stories that illustrate ideas in probability. Written so as to be
suitable for those with minimal mathematical background. Stories
can be read independently. Can be used as examples and exercises
for teaching introductory probability. These questions and many
more are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read
independently. The engaging stories are instructive and demonstrate
valuable probabilistic ideas. They offer students material that
they most likely don't learn in class, and offer teachers a new way
of teaching their subject.
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