Pleasures of Probability

Name: Pleasures of Probability
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ISBN: 9780387944159

ISBN-10: 038794415X

ISBN-13: 9780387944159

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Isaac

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The purpose of "The Pleasures of Probability" is to introduce some of the most fundamental ideas in classical probability to a fairly general audience - reaching from mathematical amateurs to scientists, from students to professional mathematicians. The only prerequisites required are a decent background in elementary algebra and an interest in discussions of a variety of problems and applications in probability. The style is informal, and the chapters are more like essays on a particular topic than textbook treatments. Even well-known problems are often covered in more depth than usual in order to illustrate underlying ideas. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 10/30/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



Cars, Goats, and Sample Spaces



How to Count: Birthdays and Lotteries



Conditional Probability: From Kings to Prisoners



The Formula of Thomas Bayes and Other Matters



The Idea of Independence, with Applications



A Little Bit About Games



Random Variables, Expectations, and More About Games



Baseball Cards, The Law of Large Numbers, and Bad News for Gamblers



From Traffic to Chocolate Chip Cookies with the Poisson Distribution



The Desperate Case of the Gambler's Ruin



Breaking Sticks, Tossing Needles, and More: Probability on Continuous Sample Spaces



Normal Distributions, and Order from Diversity via the Central Limit Theorem



Random Numbers: What They Are and How to Use Them



Computers and Probability



Statistics: Applying Probability to Make Decisions



Roaming the Number Line with a Markov Chain: Dependence



The Brownian Motion, and Other Processes in Continuous Time


Answers to Exercises


Bibliography


Index