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Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
Paul J. Nahin
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Hardback. 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? This book offers these probability puzzles. Num Pages: 256 pages, 28 line illus. 22 tables. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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. Nahin brings probability to life with colorful and amusing historical anecdotes as well as an electrifying approach to solving puzzles that illustrates many of the techniques that mathematicians and scientists use to grapple with probability. He looks at classic puzzles from the past--from Galileo's dice-tossing problem to a ... Read more
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. Nahin brings probability to life with colorful and amusing historical anecdotes as well as an electrifying approach to solving puzzles that illustrates many of the techniques that mathematicians and scientists use to grapple with probability. He looks at classic puzzles from the past--from Galileo's dice-tossing problem to a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156804
SKU
V9780691156804
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About Paul J. Nahin
Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the best-selling author of many popular-math books, including Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers, The Logician and the Engineer, Number-Crunching, Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton).
Reviews for Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
"A wonderful book for trained math lovers who enjoy the mental stimulation provided by a good mathematics puzzle."
Harold D. Shane, Library Journal "Prolific mathematics author Nahin presents a series of thought-provoking probability questions designed to intrigue the reader... In general, the solutions rely only on basic rules of probability and algebraic manipulation, while ranging in difficulty from the very straightforward ... Read more
Harold D. Shane, Library Journal "Prolific mathematics author Nahin presents a series of thought-provoking probability questions designed to intrigue the reader... In general, the solutions rely only on basic rules of probability and algebraic manipulation, while ranging in difficulty from the very straightforward ... Read more