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What's luck got to do with it? the history, mathematics, and psychology of the gambler's illusion
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Mathematician Mazur traces the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice-playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical games of change during the Renaissance, and explains the mathematics behind gambling--including the laws of probability, statistics, and betting against expectations. Photos.
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What's luck got to do with it? the history, mathematics, and psychology of the gambler's illusion, Joseph Mazur
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- Title
- What's luck got to do with it? the history, mathematics, and psychology of the gambler's illusion
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joseph Mazur
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 277
- ISBN10
- 0691138907
- ISBN13
- 9780691138909
- Series
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- 3.3 out of 5
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- Mathematician Mazur traces the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice-playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical games of change during the Renaissance, and explains the mathematics behind gambling--including the laws of probability, statistics, and betting against expectations. Photos.