Format:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 269 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780691102863
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1280494387
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9780691155005
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9781280494383
Series Statement:
Princeton puzzlers
Content:
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
Note:
First printing, 2000, third printing and first paperback printing with a new preface, 2002 ; paperback reissue for the Princeton puzzlers series, 2012
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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
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400843046
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280493623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers
Language:
English
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