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Chance defines our life. Will you get the job, the lover, the money? Now Amir Aczel, in this slim book modeled on his very successful Fermat's Last Theorem, gives readers the tools to minimize, or maximize, chance's effect on their lives. Chance marks Aczel's return to his preferred field: the popularization of mathematics. Here, Aczel explores probability theory and its daily, practical applications, while along the way relating stories of inveterate...

From the Publisher: Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? Should NFL teams pass or run more often on first downs?...

It may sound improbable for young people to be fascinated by the mathematics of chance and prediction - but this program will almost certainly make it happen! Set in the intriguing world of cards, coins, and dice, the video introduces the basic concepts of probability through colorful, easily understood examples. Viewers learn about complementary events, two-way tables, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and independent and dependent events. Featuring...

"This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time." "To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, and moving from an intuitive sense to a formal notion of probability presents further...