Unexpected expectations
Subtitle: the curiosities of a mathematical crystal ball
By: Leonard M. Wapner
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568817217
Subjects: MATHEMATICS / General; MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General; MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games; Mathematical recreations
Description: "Mathematical expectation or expected value represents the long-term average numerical outcome to an experiment performed a large number of times. Routinely used in the physical sciences, business, and economics, mathematical expectation has also been used to calculate strategies in games of chance and even to justify the belief in God. How can this expression, which is trivial to calculate, have such broad applications and at the same time yield unexpected irresolvable paradoxes? In an easily accessible presentation, this book explores these puzzling and entertaining mysteries"--
Notes: "An A K Peters book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.