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Surprises in Probability: Seventeen Short Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367000820)
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xThis book bundles together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating problem, and the devil's penny game? These questions and many others are addressed in seventeen short chapters that can be read independently. The engaging stories are instructive as well and demonstrate valuable probabilistic ideas.
Author: Henk Tijms
ISBN-10: 0367000822
ISBN-13: 9780367000820
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2018
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
By Henk Tijms
xHenk Tijms is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics. He taught applied probability and stochastic optimization for more than 30 years, and has written several widely used textbooks on these subjects, including the 2017 text "Probability: A Lively Introduction".
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