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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: Dynamics of Gambling: Origins of Randomness in Mechanical Systems
  name:
    name part: Strzalko, Jaroslaw.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Grabski, Juliusz.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Perlikowski, Przemyslaw.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Stefanski, Andrzej.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kapitaniak, Tomasz.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 152 p. 94 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This monograph presents a concise discussion of the dynamics of mechanical randomizers (coin tossing, die throw and roulette). The authors derive the equations of motion, also describing collisions and body contacts. It is shown and emphasized that, from the dynamical point of view, outcomes are predictable, i.e. if an experienced player can reproduce initial conditions with a small finite uncertainty, there is a good chance that the desired final state will be obtained. Finally, readers learn why mechanical randomizers can approximate random processes and benefit from a discussion of the nature of randomness in mechanical systems. In summary, the book not only provides a general analysis of random effects in mechanical (engineering) systems, but addresses deep questions concerning the nature of randomness, and gives potentially useful tips for gamblers and the gaming industry.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Predictability in deterministic and random dynamical systems -- Mechanical randomizers - history, type of games, how fair they are -- Dynamical models -- Simulation results -- Why are mechanical randomizers predictable? -- Why can mechanical randomizers approximate random processes?- Nature of randomness in mechanical systems.
  note: by Jaroslaw Strzalko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemyslaw Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Ergodic theory
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Vibration
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  subject:
    topic: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  classification: QC19.2-20.85
  classification: 530.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 792
  identifier: 9783642039607
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03960-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204172650.0
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