Taking Chances: Winning with Probability
ISBN: 9780191500558
Wydanie: 2003 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
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 inthe 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. This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on "e;Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"e; and "e;The WeakestLink"e;, plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers.