The first steps into the world of chance and probability

Both in the nature surrounding us, and in our everyday life, we at every step, every day and systematically forced to reckon with the presence of a kind of power of the case. But at the same time, science, technology and everyday human practice require us the ability to master the case, more precisely, the ability to predict the course of events depending on the case.

What are random events and where do we meet with them in life? Are there any patterns of random phenomena? What is called the probability of an event? When solving what tasks the probability theory arose and what problems solved and solve methods of probability theory in our time? This book is answered to these and other questions. Its authors are specialists in probability theory of the corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. Ya. Khinchin, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR B.V. Gnedenko and an outstanding mathematician, physicist and geophysicist A. M. Yaglom. At the end of the book, a biographical article about A. Ya. Khinchin, written by B.V. Gnedenko, is given.

The book is intended for schoolchildren and adults, for all those who want to know that many accidents we have to meet in life are obeying certain laws