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 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Introduction; The Problems; 1. How to Ask an Embarrassing Question; 2. When Idiots Duel; 3. Will the Light Bulb Glow?; 4. The Underdog and the World Series; 5. The Curious Case of the Snony Birthdays; 6. When Human Flesh Begins to Fail; 7. Baseball Again, and Mortal Flesh, Too; 8. Ball Madness; 9. Who Pays for the Coffee?; 10. The Chess Champ versus the Gunslinger; 11. A Different Slice of Probabilistic Pi; 12. When Negativity Is a No-No; 13. The Power of Randomness; 14. The Random Radio.
- 15. An Inconceivable Difficulty16. The Unsinkable Tub Is Sinking! How to Find Her, Fast; 17. A Walk in the Garden; 18. Two Flies Stuck on a Piece of Flypaper-How Far Apart?; 19. The Blind Spider and the Fly; 20. Reliably Unreliable; 21. When Theory Fails, There Is Always the Computer; The Solutions; Random Number Generators; ""Some Things Just Have to Be Done By Hand!""; MATLAB Programs; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.