Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?
Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? A collection of stimulating probability puzzles from bestselling math writer Paul NahinWhat are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box?…
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Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?
A collection of stimulating probability puzzles from bestselling math writer Paul NahinWhat are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Will you be alive ten years from now? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game?
Nahin brings probability to life with colorful historical anecdotes and a unique puzzle-solving approach that illustrates many of the techniques mathematicians use to grapple with probability. These are some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book. He looks at classic puzzles--from Galileo's dice-tossing problem to a disarming dice puzzle that would have astonished even Newton--and presents a dozen challenge problems and twenty-five probability puzzlers.
With wit and insight, Nahin demonstrates why seemingly simple probability problems can stump even the
Five Years From Now
Doctor Will See You Now
Who Will You Be?
What Will You Be?
You Will Be Mine
Life Will See You Now
You Will Never Be Found
You Will Be My Friend!
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Will You Be My Friend?
You Will Never Be Found
You Will Never Be Forgotten
You Will Be Safe Here
You Will Be My Son
You'd Be Home Now