Will you be alive 10 years from now? : and numerous other curious questions in probability : a collection of not so well-known mathematical mind-benders (with solutions, with one exception) /
"What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative...
| Основен автор: | Nahin, Paul J. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Съдържание:
- Classic puzzles from the past. A gambling puzzle of Gombaud and Pascal ; Galileo's dice problem ; Another Gombaud-Pascal puzzle ; Gambler's Ruin and De Moivre ; Monte Carlo simulation of Gambler's Ruin ; Newton's probability problem ; A dice problem that would have surprised Newton ; A coin-flipping problem ; Simpson's Paradox, radio-direction finding, and the spaghetti problem
- Challenge problems. Breaking sticks ; The twins ; Steve's elevator problem ; Three gambling problems Newton "probably" would have liked ; Big quotients : part 1 ; Two ways to proofread ; Chain letters that never end ; Bingo befuddlement ; Is dreidel fair? ; Hollywood thrills ; The problem of the n-Liars ; The inconvenience of a law ; A puzzle for when the Super Bowl is a blowout ; Darts and ballistic missiles ; Blood testing ; Big quotients : part 2 ; To test or not to test? ; Average distances on a square ; When will the last one fail? ; Who's ahead ; Plum pudding ; Ping-pong, squash, and difference equations ; Will you be alive 10 years from now? ; Chickens in boxes ; Newcomb's paradox
- Challenge problem solutions
- Technical note on MATLAB®'s Random Number Generator.