The Perfect Bet

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.