Winning Bets with Math: and additional curiosities - Couverture souple

Joho, Werner

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3746056233 ISBN 13 : 9783746056234

Editeur : Books on Demand, 2018

Synopsis

Here are some examples of how you can tempt your friends to accept attractive-looking bets. But mathematical analysis shows that these bets are unfair. Mathematical tricks and curiosities are presented like: the magic number 70 in exponential growth; how to estimate the birth-and mortality rate in your town; why the best team does not always win; the famous TV-Show of Monty Hall with the car and the two goats behind three doors; the story behind the fairy tales of the 1'001 Arabian nights; why the last judgment occurs in 800 years; etc. Finally there is a long list of easy and difficult riddles.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Werner Joho was born in Baden, Switzerland and lives now close to Baden. He studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute (ETHZ) in Zurich and later got there his PHD. He worked first on the large Proton Cyclotron, which produces with 1.4 MW the largest beam power, world wide. Later he was involved with the Swiss Light Source (SLS), an electron storage ring, producing high quality X-rays. He spent some time at other accelerator facilities, like CERN, MSU in Michigan, TRIUMF in Vancouver Canada and Berkeley, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Books on Demand
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3746056233
• ISBN 13: 9783746056234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 74
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Books on Demand GmbH; bod@bod.ch; ; Überseering 33; Hamburg; 22297; Allemagne