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Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories / by Henk Tijms, Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]Description: xiii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367000820
  • 9780367000431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.2 23
LOC classification:
  • QA273.15 .T55 2019
Online resources: Summary: "This book bundles 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, the Chow-Robbins game and the devil's penny game? How the gambler's fallacy created the Venice-53 hysteria in the national Italian lottery. These questions and many others are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive as well and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book bundles 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, the Chow-Robbins game and the devil's penny game? How the gambler's fallacy created the Venice-53 hysteria in the national Italian lottery. These questions and many others are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive as well and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

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