Title: Taking chances
First published: 1999
Description: "Taking Chances presents an entertaining and accessible guide that aims to help the reader to improve their ability to work with probabilities. By describing and analysing a wide range of situations in which chance plays a role, such as the lottery, football pools, roulette, and card games, the book guides the reader around many of the common pitfalls and controversies that surround probability."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Probabilities, Popular works, Chance, Gambling, Probabilidades, Obras de divulgación, Juegos de azar (Matemáticas), Probabilités, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, MATHEMATICS, Probability & Statistics, General, Alltag, Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Einführung, Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie, Kansspelen, Mathematical Statistics, Physical Sciences & Mathematics