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Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?

- And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability

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A collection of stimulating probability puzzles from best-selling math writer Paul Nahin 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 some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book. Nahin brings probability to life with colorful historical anecdotes and a unique puzzle-solving approach that illustrates many of the techniques mathematicians use to grapple with probability. He looks at classic puzzlesΓÇöfrom Galileo''s dice-tossing problem to a disarming dice puzzle that would have astonished even NewtonΓÇöand presents a dozen challenge problems and twenty-five probability puzzlers. With wit and insight, Nahin demonstrates why seemingly simple probability problems can stump even the experts.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691196367
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 256
  • Udgivet:
  • 12. november 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 144x225x19 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 378 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 27. november 2024

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A collection of stimulating probability puzzles from best-selling math writer Paul Nahin
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 some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book. Nahin brings probability to life with colorful historical anecdotes and a unique puzzle-solving approach that illustrates many of the techniques mathematicians use to grapple with probability. He looks at classic puzzlesΓÇöfrom Galileo''s dice-tossing problem to a disarming dice puzzle that would have astonished even NewtonΓÇöand presents a dozen challenge problems and twenty-five probability puzzlers. With wit and insight, Nahin demonstrates why seemingly simple probability problems can stump even the experts.

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