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050 00 $aQA273.25$b.M67 1987
082 00 $a519.2/076$219
100 1 $aMosteller, Frederick,$d1916-2006.
245 10 $aFifty challenging problems in probability with solutions /$cFrederick Mosteller.
260 $aNew York :$bDover Publications,$c1987, c1965.
300 $aviii, 88 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aReprint. Originally published: Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, 1965. Originally published in series: A-W series in introductory college mathematics.
505 0 $a1. The sock drawer -- 2. Successive wins -- 3. The flippant juror -- 4. Trials until first success -- 5. Coin in square -- 6. Chuck-a-luck -- 7. Curing the compulsive gambler -- 8. Perfect bridge hand -- 9. Craps -- 10. An experiment in personal taste for money -- 11. Silent cooperation -- 12. Quo vadis? -- 13. The prisoner's dilemma -- 14. Collecting coupons, including Euler's approximation for harmonic sums -- 15. The theater row -- 16. Will second-best be runner-up? -- 17. Twin knights -- 18. An even split at coin tossing, including Stirling's approximation -- 19. Isaac Newton helps Samuel Pepys -- 20. The three-cornered duel -- 21. Should you sample with or without replacement? -- 22. The ballot box -- 23. Ties in matching pennies -- 24. The unfair subway -- 25. Lengths of random chords -- 26. The hurried duelers -- 27. Catching the cautious counterfeiter -- 28. Catching the greedy counterfeiter, including the Poisson distribution -- 29. Moldy gelatin -- 30. Evening the sales -- 31. Birthday pairings -- 32. Finding your birthmate -- 33. Relating the birthday pairings and birthmate problems -- 34. Birthday holidays -- 35. The cliff-hanger -- 36. Gambler's ruin -- 37. Bold play vs. cautious play -- 38. The thick coin 39. The clumsy chemist -- 40. The first ace -- 41. The locomotive problem -- 42. The little end of the stick -- 43. The broken bar -- 44. Winning an unfair game -- 45. Average number of matches -- 46. Probabilities of matches -- 47. Choosing the largest dowry -- 48. Choosing the largest random numuber -- 49. Doubling your accuracy -- 50. Random quadratic equations -- 51. Two-dimensional random walk -- 52. Three-dimensional random walk -- 53. Buffon's needle -- 54. Buffon's needle with horizontal and vertical rulings -- 55. Long needles -- 56. Molina's urns.
650 0 $aProbabilities$vProblems, exercises, etc.
650 7 $aProbabilités.$2ram
650 6 $aProbabilités$vProblèmes et exercices.
655 7 $aProblems, exercises, etc.$2fast
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906 $0DLC