Struck by Lightning

Jeffrey S Rosenthal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2006
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-639495-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From lotteries, opinion polls and insuranceto worries about murder rates, naturaldisasters and terrorism, probability plays amajor part in our everyday lives--a partthat is frequently and needlessly misunderstood.Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, a mathprofessor and improvisational comedian, comes to the rescue with this irreverent, bestselling exploration of the odds andoddities of randomness. Looking at suchfamiliar topics as poker hands, e-mailspam, political elections and game shows, Struck by Lightning puts probability intoperspective and has fun along the way.

Autor

JEFFREY S. ROSENTHAL is a professor of statistics at the University of Toronto. He received his BSc in mathematics, physics and computer science from U of T at the age of 20; his PhD in mathematics from Harvard University at the age of 24; and tenure at the age of 29. He has won the CRM-SSC Prize, the SSC Gold Medal and the COPSS Presidents' Award (often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Statistics), and has received teaching awards from U of T and Harvard. Rosenthal is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His first book, Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was a national bestseller in Canada and was published in fourteen countries and ten languages. Visit Jeffrey S. Rosenthal online at probability.ca and on Twitter @ProbabilityProf. Despite being born on Friday the thirteenth, Rosenthal has led a very fortunate life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2006
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 135 x 203 mm
• Gewicht: 245 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
• ISBN-10: 0-00-639495-7 / 0006394957
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-639495-2 / 9780006394952
• Zustand: Neuware