Duelling idiots and other probability puzzlers /
What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in p...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012, ©2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781400843046 1400843049 0691102864 9780691102863 1280494387 9781280494383 0691155003 9780691155005 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in playful, sometimes deceptive, ways to a fascinating array of speculative situations. Games of Russian roulette, problems involving the accumulation of insects on flypaper, and strategies for determining the odds of the underdog winning the World Series all reveal intriguing dimensions to the worki. |
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| Item Description: | "First printing, 2000 ; third printing, and first paperback printing with a new preface, 2002 ; paperback reissue for the Princeton puzzlers series, 2012"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
| Series: | Princeton puzzlers.
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