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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology Behind the Gambler's Illusion

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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology Behind the Gambler's Illusion - Mazur, Joseph
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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 Behind the Gambler's Illusion 2010, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691138909

Hardcover