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What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance, following medical advice, carrying an umbrella. Yet many of us have a frightening ignorance of how probability works. Taking Chances presents an entertaining and fascinating exploration of probability, revealing traps and fallacies in the field. It describes and analyses a remarkable variety of situations where chance plays a role, including football pools, the Lottery, TV games, sport, cards, roulette, coins, and dice. The book guides the reader round common pitfalls, demonstrates how to make better informed decisions, and shows where the odds can be unexpectedly in your favour. This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link", plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers.
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Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily imprecise and involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the understanding and management of probabilities is central to much work in the sciences and economics. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh introduces the ideas of probability and different philosophical approaches to probability, and gives a brief account of the history of development of probability theory, from Galileo and Pascal to Bayes, Laplace, Poisson, and Markov. He describes the basic probability distributions, and goes on to discuss a wide range of applications in science, economics, and a variety of other contexts such as games and betting. He concludes with an intriguing discussion of coincidences and some curious paradoxes. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Motivation comes from everyday experiences of probability, such as that of a dice or cards, the idea of fairness in games of chance, and the random ways in which, say, birthdays are shared or particular events arise.Applications include branching processes, random walks, Markov chains, queues, renewal theory, and Brownian motion.
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Through concrete examples from business, sport, games, computing, and society, this book explores the mathematics underpinning our everyday lives. The examples covered in the book include game shows, internet search engines, mortgage payments, drug testing, soccer tournaments, social inequality, voting, and much more.
Matematik på 30 sekunder : de 50 mest betydelsefulla teorierna inom matematiken var och en förklarad på en halv minut
Häftad, Svenska, 2020
114 kr
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Fermats stora sats, pi, fibonaccital och Pascals triangel? Visst vet du vad det är? Jag menar, du har säkert hört talas om dem. Men kan du trollbinda dina middagsgäster med berättelsen om hur Fermats stora sats till slut bevisades? Och kan du sprida dina kunskaper om pi till desserten? Matematik på 30 sekunder hjälper dig att få koll på talen genom att korta ner de komplexa matematiska teorierna till två sidor: 300 ord och en bild. Vill du förstå den avgörande skillnaden mellan potenstal och logaritmer eller varför det finns olika nivåer av oändlighet så är det här rätt bok – den tänder även en gnista hos alla som inte precis brann för matten i skolan. Spännande beskrivningar av historiens främsta matematiska genier illustreras av fina bilder i denna fascinerande bok. Läs i din egen takt och upptäck att matematiken faktiskt kan vara helt magisk och inte alls seg och trist.