Surprises in Probability: Seventeen Short Stories

ISBN-13: 9780367000820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str.

Henk Tijms

Opis

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, and the devil’s penny game? 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.

Spis treści

1. What is Casino Credit Worth? 2. One Hundred Prisoners: Freedom or Death 3. Birthday Surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles 4. Was the Champions League Rigged? 5. Benford Goes to the Casino 6. Surprising Card Games, or, It's All in the Cards 7. The Lost Boarding Pass and the Seven Dwarfs 8. Monte Carlo Simulation and Probability: The Interface 9. Lotto Nonsense: the World is Asking to be Deceived 10. March Madness Grips the USA 11. Coincidences and Impossibilities 12. Gambler's Fallacy 13. Euler's Number e is Everywhere 14. The 10 Most Beautiful Formulas in Probability 15. Beating the Odds on the Lottery 16. Investing and Gambling with Kelly 17.To Stop or Not to Stop? That is the Question

O autorze

Henk Tijms is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics. He taught applied probability and stochastic optimization for more than 30 years, and has written several widely used textbooks on these subjects, including the 2017 text “Probability: A Lively Introduction”.