Chance The life of games and the game of life /

• Main Author: Marques de Sá, Joaquim P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Game theory.; Probabilities.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Popular Science.; Popular Science, general.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

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 prob...

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.