Rules for 50/50 Chances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rules for 50/50 Chances write by Kate McGovern. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Rules for 50/50 Chances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother. With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse, Rose is skeptical about pursuing anything that presumes she'll live to be a healthy adult-including her dream career in ballet and the possibility of falling in love. But when she meets a boy from a similarly flawed genetic pool and gets an audition for a dance scholarship across the country, Rose begins to question her carefully laid rules.
Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions
Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions write by Frederick Mosteller. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Remarkable puzzlers, graded in difficulty, illustrate elementary and advanced aspects of probability. These problems were selected for originality, general interest, or because they demonstrate valuable techniques. Also includes detailed solutions.
Know Your Chances
Know Your Chances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Know Your Chances write by Steven Woloshin. This book was released on 2008-11-30. Know Your Chances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?
The Probability of God
The Probability of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Probability of God write by Dr. Stephen D. Unwin. This book was released on 2004-10-26. The Probability of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does God exist? This is probably the most debated question in the history of mankind. Scholars, scientists, and philosophers have spent their lifetimes trying to prove or disprove the existence of God, only to have their theories crucified by other scholars, scientists, and philosophers. Where the debate breaks down is in the ambiguities and colloquialisms of language. But, by using a universal, unambiguous language—namely, mathematics—can this question finally be answered definitively? That’s what Dr. Stephen Unwin attempts to do in this riveting, accessible, and witty book, The Probability of God. At its core, this groundbreaking book reveals how a math equation developed more than 200 years ago by noted European philosopher Thomas Bayes can be used to calculate the probability that God exists. The equation itself is much more complicated than a simple coin toss (heads, He’s up there running the show; tails, He’s not). Yet Dr. Unwin writes with a clarity that makes his mathematical proof easy for even the nonmathematician to understand and a verve that makes his book a delight to read. Leading you carefully through each step in his argument, he demonstrates in the end that God does indeed exist. Whether you’re a devout believer and agree with Dr. Unwin’s proof or are unsure about all things divine, you will find this provocative book enlightening and engaging. “One of the most innovative works [in the science and religion movement] is The Probability of God...An entertaining exercise in thinking.”—Michael Shermer, Scientific American “Unwin’s book [is] peppered with wry, self-deprecating humor that makes the scientific discussions more accessible...Spiritually inspiring.”--Chicago Sun Times “A pleasantly breezy account of some complicated matters well worth learning about.”--Philadelphia Inquirer “One of the best things about the book is its humor.”--Cleveland Plain Dealer “In a book that is surprisingly lighthearted and funny, Unwin manages to pack in a lot of facts about science and philosophy.”--Salt Lake Tribune
The Unfinished Game
The Unfinished Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unfinished Game write by Keith Devlin. This book was released on 2010-03-23. The Unfinished Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll or the likelihood of showers instead of sunshine was thought to lie in the realm of pure, unknowable chance. The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the "unfinished game" problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to.
