An edition of What's luck got to do with it? (2010)

What's luck got to do with it?

the history, mathematics, and psychology behind the gambler's illusion

What's luck got to do with it?
Joseph Mazur, Joseph Mazur
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An edition of What's luck got to do with it? (2010)

What's luck got to do with it?

the history, mathematics, and psychology behind the gambler's illusion

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English
Pages
277

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Table of Contents

Pits, pebbles, and bones : rolling to discover fate
The professionals : luck becomes measurable
From coffeehouses to casinos : gaming becomes big business
There's no stopping it now : from bans to bookies
Betting with trillions : the 2008 world economic calamity
The mathematics
Who's got a royal flush? : one deal as likely as another
The behavior of a coin : making predictions with probability
Someone has to win : betting against expectation
A truly astonishing result : the weak law of large numbers
The skill/luck spectrum : even great talent needs some good fortune
The analysis
Let it ride : the house money effect
Knowing when to quit : psychomanaging risk
The theories : what makes a gambler?
Hot hands : expecting long runs of the same outcome
Luck : the dicey illusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Princeton

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
519.2/7
Library of Congress
QA271 .M39 2010, QA271.M39 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
277

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23944486M
ISBN 13
9780691138909
LCCN
2009045799
OCLC/WorldCat
466341420

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18736496W

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