دانلود کتاب Duelling idiots and other probability puzzlers

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface to the Paperback Edition......Page 12
Preface......Page 22
Introduction......Page 32
1. How to Ask an Embarrassing Question......Page 44
2. When Idiots Duel......Page 45
3. Will the Light Bulb Glow?......Page 51
4. The Underdog and the World Series......Page 55
5. The Curious Case of the Snony Birthdays......Page 56
7. Baseball Again, and Mortal Flesh, Too......Page 63
8. Ball Madness......Page 65
9. Who Pays for the Coffee?......Page 71
10. The Chess Champ versus the Gunslinger......Page 74
11. A Different Slice of Probabilistic Pi......Page 78
12. When Negativity Is a No-No......Page 79
13. The Power of Randomness......Page 80
14. The Random Radio......Page 81
15. An Inconceivable Difficulty......Page 84
16. The Unsinkable Tub Is Sinking! How to Find Her, Fast......Page 86
17. A Walk in the Garden......Page 87
18. Two Flies Stuck on a Piece of Flypaper—How Far Apart?......Page 90
19. The Blind Spider and the Fly......Page 91
20. Reliably Unreliable......Page 97
21. When Theory Fails, There Is Always the Computer......Page 100
The Solutions......Page 110
Random Number Generators......Page 204
\"Some Things Just Have to Be Done By Hand!\"......Page 227
MATLAB Programs......Page 231
E......Page 296
N......Page 297
Y......Page 298