What's Luck Got to Do with It?

What's Luck Got to Do with It?
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780691138909
ISBN-13 : 0691138907
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Book Synopsis What's Luck Got to Do with It? by : Joseph Mazur

Download or read book What's Luck Got to Do with It? written by Joseph Mazur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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