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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Chance
    sub title: The life of games and the game of life
  name:
    name part: Marques de Sá, Joaquim P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 224 p. online resource.
  abstract: With its many easy-to-follow mathematical examples, this book takes the reader on an almost chronological trip through the fascinating and amazing laws of chance, omnipresent in the natural world and in our daily lives. Along the route many fascinating topics are discussed, such as: challenging probability paradoxes; "paranormal" coincidences; game odds; causes and effects; interpretation of opinion polls; winning chances as a game proceeds; the nature of randomness; entropy and randomness; randomness in life; algorithmic complexity and the undecidability of randomness; possibilities and limitations of learning the laws of a Universe immersed in chance events. This charming book will inform and entertain the scientist and non-scientist alike.
  table of contents: Probabilities and Games of Chance -- Amazing Conditions -- Expecting to Win -- The Wonderful Curve -- Probable Inferences -- Fortune and Ruin -- The Nature of Chance -- Noisy Irregularities -- Chance and Order -- Living with Chance.
  note: by Joaquim P. Marques de Sá.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  classification: Q162
  classification: 500
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540744177
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74417-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204172606.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-74417-7