Probability Tales

Author : Charles Miller Grinstead,William Paul Peterson,James Laurie Snell
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821852613

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Probability Tales by Charles Miller Grinstead,William Paul Peterson,James Laurie Snell Pdf

This book explores four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory. It can be used to supplement a standard text in probability or statistics. Most elementary textbooks present the basic theory and then illustrate the ideas with some neatly packaged examples. Here the authors assume that the reader has seen, or is learning, the basic theory from another book and concentrate in some depth on the following topics: streaks, the stock market, lotteries, and fingerprints. This extended format allows the authors to present multiple approaches to problems and to pursue promising side discussions in ways that would not be possible in a book constrained to cover a fixed set of topics. To keep the main narrative accessible, the authors have placed the more technical mathematical details in appendices. The appendices can be understood by someone who has taken one or two semesters of calculus.

Author : Charles Miller Grinstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Probabilities
ISBN : 1470416409

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Probability Tales by Charles Miller Grinstead Pdf

Author : Art Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199384242

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Tales of the Quantum by Art Hobson Pdf

Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or "coherent" bundles of energy called "quanta" that (like everything else) obey certain rules. In the case of the quantum, these rules are called "quantum physics." This is a book about quanta and their unexpected, some would say peculiar, behavior--tales, if you will, of the quantum. The quantum has developed the reputation of being capricious, bewildering, even impossible to understand. The peculiar habits of quanta are certainly not what we would have expected to find at the foundation of physical reality, but these habits are not necessarily bewildering and not at all impossible or paradoxical. This book explains those habits--the quantum rules--in everyday language, without mathematics or unnecessary technicalities. While most popular books about quantum physics follow the topic's scientific history from 1900 to today, this book follows the phenomena: wave-particle duality, fundamental randomness, quantum states, superpositions (being in two places at once), entanglement, non-locality, Schrodinger's cat, and quantum jumps, and presents the history and the scientists only to the extent that they illuminate the phenomena.

Author : Colin Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 0099428571

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Conned Again, Watson! by Colin Bruce Pdf

We all lose time and money because of bad decisions, perfectly happy in the illusion that our common sense is choosing the right path for us. In Conned Again, Watson! Sherlock Holmes uses his vast knowledge solve crimes and protect the innocent in a series of cautionary tales of greedy gamblers, reckless businessmen and ruthless conmen. From 'The Execution of Andrews' to 'The Case of the Gambling Nobleman' and 'The Case of the Paranoid Student', there has never been a more exciting way to learn when to take a calculated risk - and how to spot a scam. In this illuminating collection of twelve new Sherlock Holmes stories, challenges of logic, probability, statistics, game theory and more are illustrated. A thought-provoking introduction to maths relevant to everyday life, this book will change the way you look at making decisions.

Author : Henk Tijms
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429815492

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Surprises in Probability by Henk Tijms Pdf

This book brings together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem? What can Bayes’ formula tell us about the chances of a Champions League draw for soccer teams being rigged? How could syndicates win millions of lottery dollars by buying a multitude of tickets at the right time? What’s the best way to manage your betting bankroll in a game in which you have an edge? How to use probability to debunk quacks and psychic mediums? How can the Monte Carlo simulation be used to solve a wide variety of probability problems? Are seven riffle shuffles of a standard deck of 52 playing cards enough for randomness? Provides seventeen engaging stories that illustrate ideas in probability. Written so as to be suitable for those with minimal mathematical background. Stories can be read independently. Can be used as examples and exercises for teaching introductory probability. These questions and many more are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas. They offer students material that they most likely don’t learn in class, and offer teachers a new way of teaching their subject.

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UOM:39015003973230

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Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Pdf

Twenty-nine traditional tales from India include "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal," "The Lion and the Crane," and "Why the Fish Laughed."

Author : Adam Davis,Adam Deats,Joey Cuellar
Publisher : BradyGames
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0744005981

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Soulcalibur® III by Adam Davis,Adam Deats,Joey Cuellar Pdf

BradyGames' SOULCALIBURIII Official Fighter's Guide includes the following: Extensive "versus" strategy. Detailed area maps pinpointing unlockables. Complete coverage of all character movelists and techniques. In-depth content of the various game modes such as create your own fighter and edge master mode Signature Series guide provides bonus poster and much more! Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Action/AdventureThis product is available for sale North America only.

Author : Charles Miller Grinstead,James Laurie Snell
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821807498

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Introduction to Probability by Charles Miller Grinstead,James Laurie Snell Pdf

This text is designed for an introductory probability course at the university level for undergraduates in mathematics, the physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science. It presents a thorough treatment of probability ideas and techniques necessary for a firm understanding of the subject.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z166901503

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The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and Versification (etc.) by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Douglas Lane Patey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521254564

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Probability and Literary Form by Douglas Lane Patey Pdf

This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England. By examining in particular Augustan notions of probability and the way they provided a framework for thinking about and organising experience, Dr Patey reconstructs a characteristically eighteenth-century theory of literature which offers a much more satisfactory account of the work of Pope, Johnson, Fielding and others than the Romantic literary categories already in existence. The scope of this study is encyclopaedic and it will be an essential reference work for all scholars of eighteenth-century English literature and intellectual history, as well as historians of ideas.

Author : C.C. Heyde,E. Seneta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387952837

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Statisticians of the Centuries by C.C. Heyde,E. Seneta Pdf

Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664460

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Fairy Tales of the British Empire by Joseph Jacobs Pdf

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590531459

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Indian fairy tales, selected and ed. by J. Jacobs by Joseph Jacobs Pdf

Author : Charles Miller Grinstead,William Paul Peterson,James Laurie Snell
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821884737

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Probability Tales by Charles Miller Grinstead,William Paul Peterson,James Laurie Snell Pdf

Exploring four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory: streaks, the stock market, lotteries & fingerprints, this volume can be used to supplement a standard text on probability or statistics.

Author : Ivar Ekeland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0226199924

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The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland Pdf

Contemplating the randomness of nature, Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in Mathematics and the Unexpected, drawing upon rich literary sources and current topics in math and physics such as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics. Line drawings.