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Our everyday life is in?uenced by many unexpected (dif?cult to
predict) events usually referred as a chance. Probably, we all are
as we are due to the accumulation point of a multitude of chance
events. Gambling games that have been known to human beings nearly
from the beginning of our civilization are based on chance events.
These chance events have created the dream that everybody can
easily become rich. This pursuit made gambling so popular. This
book is devoted to the dynamics of the mechanical randomizers and
we try to solve the problem why mechanical device (roulette) or a
rigid body (a coin or a die) operating in the way described by the
laws of classical mechanics can behave in such a way and produce a
pseudorandom outcome. During mathematical lessons in primary school
we are taught that the outcome of the coin tossing experiment is
random and that the probability that the tossed coin lands heads
(tails) up is equal to 1/2. Approximately, at the same time during
physics lessons we are told that the motion of the rigid body (coin
is an example of suchabody)isfullydeterministic.
Typically,studentsarenotgiventheanswertothe question Why this
duality in the interpretation of the simple mechanical experiment
is possible? Trying to answer this question we describe the
dynamics of the gambling games based on the coin toss, the throw of
the die, and the roulette run.
Our everyday life is in?uenced by many unexpected (dif?cult to
predict) events usually referred as a chance. Probably, we all are
as we are due to the accumulation point of a multitude of chance
events. Gambling games that have been known to human beings nearly
from the beginning of our civilization are based on chance events.
These chance events have created the dream that everybody can
easily become rich. This pursuit made gambling so popular. This
book is devoted to the dynamics of the mechanical randomizers and
we try to solve the problem why mechanical device (roulette) or a
rigid body (a coin or a die) operating in the way described by the
laws of classical mechanics can behave in such a way and produce a
pseudorandom outcome. During mathematical lessons in primary school
we are taught that the outcome of the coin tossing experiment is
random and that the probability that the tossed coin lands heads
(tails) up is equal to 1/2. Approximately, at the same time during
physics lessons we are told that the motion of the rigid body (coin
is an example of suchabody)isfullydeterministic.
Typically,studentsarenotgiventheanswertothe question Why this
duality in the interpretation of the simple mechanical experiment
is possible? Trying to answer this question we describe the
dynamics of the gambling games based on the coin toss, the throw of
the die, and the roulette run.
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