Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

Taking Chances presents an entertaining and fascinating exploration of probability, revealing traps and fallacies in the field. It describes and analyzes a remarkable variety of situations where chance plays a role, including football pools, the Lottery, TV games, sport, cards, roulette, coins, and dice. The book guides the reader round common pitfalls, demonstrates how to make better informed decisions, and shows where the odds can be unexpectedly in your favor. This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link", plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers.

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• Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
• The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic
• Big Debt Crises
• Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
• Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
• Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists
• The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
• The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
• Thinking, Fast and Slow