00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861845911 Buklod 20110802083526.0 g||| | || || ta 180326s2010 flua rb |||1 u|eng d 9781439801635 (hc : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00008722583 BC-60871 Php4,336.50 DLC BAG rda eng QA 401 G68 2010 Gould, Ronald author. Mathematics in games, sports, and gambling the games people play Ronald J. Gould. Boca Raton, FL Chapman & Hall/CRC [2010] xix, 354 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "A Chapman & Hall book." Includes bibliographical references and index. Basic probability : Of dice and men ; Probability ; The laws which govern us ; Poker hands versus batting orders ; Let's play for money ; Is that fair? ; The odds are against us ; Things vary ; Conditional expectation -- The game's afoot : Application to games ; Counting and probability in poker hands ; Roulette ; Craps ; Let's make a deal: the Monty Hall problem ; Carnival games ; Other casino games ; Backgammon -- Repeated play : Binomial coefficients ; The binomial distribution ; The Posisson distribution ; Streaks: are they real? ; Betting strategies ; The gambler's ruin -- Card tricks and more : The five-card trick ; The two-deck matching game ; More tricks : The paintball wars -- Dealing with data : Batting averages and Simpson's paradox ; NFL passer ratings ; Viewing data: simple graphs ; Confidence in our estimates ; Measuring differences in performance -- Testing and relationships : Suzuki versus Pujols ; I'll decide if I believe that ; Are the old adages true? ; How good are certain measurements? Arguing over outstanding performances ; A last look at comparisons -- Games and puzzles : Number arrays ; The Tower of Hanoi ; Instant insanity ; Lights out ; Peg games -- Combinatorial games : Subtraction games ; Nim ; Games as digraphs ; Blue-red Hackenbush ; Green Hackenbush ; Games as numbers ; More about numbers -- Appendix : Review of elementary set theory ; Standard normal distribution table ; Student's t-distribution ; Solutions to problems ; Selected even exercises. "Only requiring high school algebra, the text offers flexibility in choosing what material to cover in a basic mathematics course. It covers permutations in the two-deck matching game so derangements can be counted, introduces graphs to find matches when looking at extensions of the five-card trick, and studies lexicographic orderings and ideas of encoding for card tricks. The text also explores linear equations and weighted equations in the section on the NFL passer rating formula and presents graphing to show how data can be compared or displayed. For each topic, the author includes exercises based on real games and sports data"--Book jacket. Mathematical analysis. Problem solving Mathematical models. Games Mathematics. Sports Mathematics. Gambling Mathematics. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QA 401 G68 2010 Book