Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? : : And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability / / Paul J. 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 just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 28 line illus. 22 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Classic Puzzles from the Past
- Challenge Problems
- 1. Breaking Sticks
- 2. The Twins
- 3. Steve's Elevator Problem
- 4. Three Gambling Problems Newton Would "Probably" Have Liked
- 5. Big Quotients - Part 1
- 6. Two Ways to Proofread
- 7. Chain Letters That Never End
- 8. Bingo Befuddlement
- 9. Is Dreidel Fair?
- 10. Hollywood Thrills
- 11. The Problem of the n-Liars
- 12. The Inconvenience of a Law
- 13. A Puzzle for When the Super Bowl
- 14. Darts and Ballistic Missiles
- 15. Blood Testing
- 16. Big Quotients - Part 2
- 17. To Test or Not to Test?
- 18. Average Distances on a Square
- 19. When Will the Last One Fail?
- 20. Who's Ahead?
- 21. Plum Pudding
- 22. Ping-Pong, Squash, and Difference Equations
- 23. Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?
- 24. Chickens in Boxes
- 25. Newcomb's Paradox
- Challenge Problem Solutions
- Technical Note on MATLAB®'s Random Number Generator
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by Paul J. Nahin