Probabilities and games of chance -- Amazing conditions -- Expecting to win -- The wonderful curve -- Probable inferences -- Fortune and ruin -- The nature of chance -- Noisy irregularities -- Chance and order -- Living with chance -- Some mathematical notes.
Summary:
"With many easy-to-follow mathematical examples, this book takes the reader on an almost chronological trip through the laws of chance, omnipresent in the natural world and in our daily lives."--BOOK JACKET.
