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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: pleasures of probability
  name:
    name part: Isaac, Richard.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: The purpose of "The Pleasures of Probability" is to introduce some of the most fundamental ideas in classical probability to a fairly general audience - reaching from mathematical amateurs to scientists, from students to professional mathematicians. The only prerequisites required are a decent background in elementary algebra and an interest in discussions of a variety of problems and applications in probability. The style is informal, and the chapters are more like essays on a particular topic than textbook treatments. Even well-known problems are often covered in more depth than usual in order to illustrate underlying ideas. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability or as a companion to a text. Each chapter ends with a few problems, the answers to which are given at the end of the book.
  table of contents: Cars, goats, and sample spaces -- How to count: birthdays and lotteries -- Conditional probability: from kings to prisoners -- The formula of Thomas Bayes and other matters -- The idea of independence, with applications -- A little bit about games -- Random variables, expectations, and more about games -- Baseball cards, the law of large numbers, and bad news for gamblers -- From traffic to chocolate chip cookies with the Poisson Distribution -- The desperate case of the gambler's ruin -- Breaking sticks, tossing needles, and more: probability on continuous sample spaces -- Normal distributions, and order from diversity via the central limit theorem -- Random numbers: what they are and how to use them -- Computers and probability -- Statistics: applying probability to make decisions -- Roaming the number line with a Markov chain: dependence -- The Brownian motion, and other processes in continuous time.
  note: Richard Isaac.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-237) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Probabilidade (textos introdutorios)
  subject:
    topic: Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie
  subject:
    topic: Probabilités
    topic: Problèmes et exercices
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  classification: QA273 .I73 1995eb
  classification: 519.2
  classification: 31.70
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    title info:
      title: Pleasures of probability
    name:
      name part: Isaac, Richard.
    identifier: (DLC) 94039140
    identifier: (OCoLC)31374740
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    title info:
      title: Undergraduate texts in mathematics
      part name: Readings in mathematics
  identifier: 9781461208198 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 146120819X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 038794415X
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    record creation date: 140711
    record change date: 20260422223455.5
    record identifier: in00003551986
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng