Ideal bet
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The legend of the "ideal bet" is one of the favorite fairy tales of mankind. For centuries, fans of gambling have been tormented by the question: how to find a magic formula, which will allow you to deceive cards, bones, roulette wheel ... Lady of luck itself? However, the search for a "ideal bet" is not at all the joys of losers and gamers. Scientists are looking for her and not to no avail. Gambling had a serious impact on the most diverse areas of science - from the theory of games and statistics to the theory of chaos and technologies for the development of artificial intelligence. "Gambling is a real factory of incredible ideas, simple and sophisticated, impudent and absurd" - Adam Kucharsky, a mathematician and a well -known popularizer of science are sure.
The book contains a lot of interesting facts from the history of exact sciences and gambling - from the 18th century to the present day. Adam Kucharsky tells not so much about the tricks of roulette and the intricacies of higher mathematics as about human thinking as such - and about the surprises that the universe presents tireless researchers
The book contains a lot of interesting facts from the history of exact sciences and gambling - from the 18th century to the present day. Adam Kucharsky tells not so much about the tricks of roulette and the intricacies of higher mathematics as about human thinking as such - and about the surprises that the universe presents tireless researchers
Author:
Author:Kucharsky Adam
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Comics and Graphic Novels
- Category:Science & Math
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00131-056-3
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