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In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory--the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications. What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance, you'll learn to increase your odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market. For thousands of years, the twin forces of chance and mischance have beguiled humanity like none other. Why does fortune smile on some people, and smirk on others? What is luck, and why does it so often visit the undeserving? How can we predict the random events happening around us? Even better, how can we manipulate them? In this delightful and lucid voyage through the realm of the random, Dr. Aczel once again makes higher mathematics intelligible to us.… (more)
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The nineteen chapters are quite short. I'ld say that the chapter 1 through 11 are all quite good. The remaining chapters are inferior for
The frequent mention of Persi Diaconis reminds me of the one time when he was a guest lecturer at the UW-Madison when I was a graduate student. As math lectures go his was memorable.