The legend of the "perfect bet" is one of humanity's favorite tales. For centuries, gambling enthusiasts have been tormented by the question: how to find the magical formula that would allow them to cheat the cards, dice, roulette wheel… Lady...
Luck herself? However, the search for the "perfect bet" is not just a pastime for losers and gamblers. Scientists are also looking for it - and not without results. Gambling has had a significant impact on various fields of science - from game theory and statistics to chaos theory and artificial intelligence development technologies. "Gambling is a real factory of incredible ideas, simple and sophisticated, daring and absurd," believes Adam Kucharski, a mathematician and well-known science communicator. .This book contains a wealth of interesting facts from the history of the exact sciences and gambling - from the 18th century to the present day. Adam Kucharski talks not so much about roulette tricks and the subtleties of higher mathematics as about human thinking as such - and about the surprises that the universe presents to tireless researchers. .Adam Kucharski (b. 1986) is a research associate at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He has conducted research in the fields of statistics and social behavior; participated in investigations into the causes of bird flu and Ebola fever outbreaks. A regular contributor to Nautilus, BBC Focus, Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist, Financial Times, and The Observer. He is a recipient of the Wellcome Trust charitable foundation award for educational activities. .Adam lives in London. "The Perfect Bet" is his first book.
The legend of the "perfect bet" is one of humanity's favorite tales. For centuries, gambling enthusiasts have been tormented by the question: how to find the magical formula that would allow them to cheat the cards, dice, roulette wheel… Lady Luck herself? However, the search for the "perfect bet" is not just a pastime for losers and gamblers. Scientists are also looking for it - and not without results. Gambling has had a significant impact on various fields of science - from game theory and statistics to chaos theory and artificial intelligence development technologies. "Gambling is a real factory of incredible ideas, simple and sophisticated, daring and absurd," believes Adam Kucharski, a mathematician and well-known science communicator. .This book contains a wealth of interesting facts from the history of the exact sciences and gambling - from the 18th century to the present day. Adam Kucharski talks not so much about roulette tricks and the subtleties of higher mathematics as about human thinking as such - and about the surprises that the universe presents to tireless researchers. .Adam Kucharski (b. 1986) is a research associate at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He has conducted research in the fields of statistics and social behavior; participated in investigations into the causes of bird flu and Ebola fever outbreaks. A regular contributor to Nautilus, BBC Focus, Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist, Financial Times, and The Observer. He is a recipient of the Wellcome Trust charitable foundation award for educational activities. .Adam lives in London. "The Perfect Bet" is his first book.
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