Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers / / Paul J. Nahin.
What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Puzzlers
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 65 line illus. 42 computer sim. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments ix
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Problems
- The Solutions
- Random Number Generators
- "Some- Things Just Have to be Done by Hand!"
- MATLAB Programs
- Index