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050 00 $aQA401$b.G658 2016
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100 1 $aGould, Ronald.
245 10 $aMathematics in games, sports, and gambling :$bthe games people play /$cRonald J. Gould, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
250 $aSecond edition.
264 1 $aBoca Raton :$bCRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,$c[2016]
264 4 $c℗♭2016
300 $axxiii, 354 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aTextbooks in mathematics
500 $a"A Chapman & Hall book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Basic probability -- Dice -- Probability -- The laws that govern us -- Dependent events -- Poker hand versus batting orders -- Let's play for money! -- Is that fair? -- The odds are against us -- Things vary -- Conditional expectation -- 2. The game's afoot -- Applications to games -- Counting and probability in poker hands -- Roulette -- Craps -- Let's make a deal : the Monty Hall problem -- Carnival games -- Casino games -- Caribbean stud poker -- Keno -- Blackjack -- Backgammon -- 3. Repeated play -- Binomial coefficients -- The binomial distribution -- The Poisson distribution -- Streaks : are they real? -- Betting strategies -- The gambler's ruin -- 4. Card tricks and more -- The five-card trick -- The two-deck matching game -- Friends find each other -- The small arithmetic trick -- The nine-card trick -- The paintball wars -- 5. Dealing with Data -- Batting averages and Simpson's paradox -- NFL passer ratings -- Viewing data : simple graphs -- Time plots and regression lines -- Confidence in out estimates -- Measuring differences in performance -- Coefficient of variation -- Relative performance -- 6. Testing and relationships -- Suzuki versus Pujols -- I'll decide if I believe that -- Errors -- Hypothesis testing -- One-sided tests -- Small sample sizes -- Are the old adages true? -- Home field advantage -- Lefty versus righty -- How good are certain measurements -- Batting average and runs scored -- Arguing over outstanding performances -- A last look at comparisons -- Small sample comparisons -- 7. Games and puzzles -- Number arrays -- Magic squares -- Sudoku -- The Tower of Hanoi -- Bicolored Tower of Hanoi -- The Derangement Tower of Hanoi -- Instant insanity -- Lights out -- Peg games -- English board -- Triangular peg solitaire -- Puzzles on the chessboard -- Chessboards and dominoes : tilings -- Guarini's problem -- Martin Gardner's No 3-in-a-line problem -- The knight's tour -- Domination and independence -- Attacking placements and independence -- 8. Combinatorial games -- Subtraction games -- Nim -- Games as digraphs -- Blue-red hackenbush -- Green hackenbush -- Games as numbers -- More about numbers -- 9. Appendix -- Review of elementary set theory -- Relations and functions -- Standard normal distribution table -- Student's t-Distribution -- Solutions.
650 0 $aMathematical analysis.
650 0 $aProblem solving$xMathematical models.
650 0 $aGames$xMathematics.
650 0 $aSports$xMathematics.
650 0 $aGambling$xMathematics.
830 0 $aTextbooks in mathematics (Boca Raton, Fla.)
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