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Nahin, Paul J
by Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
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Princeton. 2008. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691126982. 276 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Mathematics Probability. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice is all about: how to get numerical answers to difficult probability problems without having to solve complicated mathematical equations. Popular-math writer Paul Nahin challenges readers to solve twenty-one difficult but fun problems, from determining the odds of coin-flipping games to figuring out the behavior of elevators. Problems build from relatively easy (deciding whether a dishwasher who breaks most of the dishes at a restaurant during a given week is clumsy or just the victim of randomness) to the very difficult (tackling branching processes of the kind that had to be solved by Manhattan Project mathematician Stanislaw Ulam). In his characteristic style, Nahin brings the problems to life with interesting and odd historical anecdotes. Readers learn, for example, not just how to determine the optimal stopping point in any selection process but that astronomer Johannes Kepler selected his second wife by interviewing eleven women. The book shows readers how to write elementary computer codes using any common programming language, and provides solutions and line-by-line walk-throughs of a MATLAB code for each problem. Digital Dice will appeal to anyone who enjoys popular math or computer science. inventory #36256 ISBN: 9780691126982.
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- Title
- Nahin, Paul J
- Author
- Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0691126984
- ISBN 13
- 9780691126982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, Nj
- This edition first published
- March 20, 2008
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