Henk Tijms

Surprises in Probability

Seventeen Short Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367000820
• ISBN-10: 0367000822
• Artikelnr.: 54073666

Autorenporträt

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".

Inhaltsangabe

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