02367nam a2200337 i 4500999001700000001000600017003000900023005001700032008004100049010001700090020001800107020001800125020001800143040004600161042000800207050002400215082001400239100003200253245007300285260006000358300004700418504005100465505068900516520053501205526000801740650004101748650005201789852004001841942001201881952013601893  c40444d4044434318BD-DhAAL20211207120940.0190320t2019    flu a    b    001 0 eng c  a  2018021084  a9780367000431  a9780367000820  z9780429444579  aLBSOR/DLCbengcLBSORerdadDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc00aQA273.15b.T55 201900a519.22231 aTijms, Henkeauthor.93023010aSurprises in probability :bseventeen short stories /cby Henk Tijms  aBoca Raton :bCRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,cc2019  axiii, 131 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aWhat is casino credit worth? --
One hundred prisoners : freedom or death --
Birthday surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles --
Was the champions league rigged? --
Benford goes to the casino --
Surprising card games, or, it's all in the cards --
The lost boarding pass and the Seven Dwarfs --
Monte Carlo simulation and probability : the interface --
Lotto nonsense : the world is asking to be deceived --
March madness grips the USA --
Coincidences and impossibilities --
Gambler's fallacy --
Euler's number e is everywhere --
The 10 most beautiful formulas in probability --
Beating the odds on the lottery --
Investing and gambling with Kelly --
To stop or not to stop? That is the question.  a"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"--  aESS 0aProbabilitiesvPopular works.930231 0aProbabilitiesvProblems, exercises, etc.930232  aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks  2ddccBK  00102ddc4070aBRACULbBRACULcGENd2019-02-26eParamag2129.29l0o519.2 TIJp3010034318r2019-02-26t1v2129.29w2019-02-26yBK