Surprises in probability : seventeen short stories

Probabilities Mathematics
Chapman and Hall/CRC
2018
1st edition
EISBN 9780429444579
What is casino credit worth?.
One hundred prisoners : freedom or death.
Birthday surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles.
Was the champions league rigged?.
Benford goes to the casino.
Surprising card games, or, it's all in the cards.
The lost boarding pass and the Seven Dwarfs.
Monte Carlo simulation and probability : the interface.
Lotto nonsense : the world is asking to be deceived.
March madness grips the USA.
Coincidences and impossibilities.
Gambler's fallacy.
Euler's number e is everywhere.
The 10 most beautiful formulas in probability.
Beating the odds on the lottery.
Investing and gambling with Kelly.
To stop or not to stop? That is the question.
One hundred prisoners : freedom or death.
Birthday surprises and 500 Oldsmobiles.
Was the champions league rigged?.
Benford goes to the casino.
Surprising card games, or, it's all in the cards.
The lost boarding pass and the Seven Dwarfs.
Monte Carlo simulation and probability : the interface.
Lotto nonsense : the world is asking to be deceived.
March madness grips the USA.
Coincidences and impossibilities.
Gambler's fallacy.
Euler's number e is everywhere.
The 10 most beautiful formulas in probability.
Beating the odds on the lottery.
Investing and gambling with Kelly.
To stop or not to stop? That is the question.
