زده شده توسط صاعقه: دنیای عجیب و غریب احتمالات ۲۰۱۰
Struck By Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities 2010

1. Cover

2. Title Page

3. Contents

1 Surrounded by Randomness: Probabilities Everywhere

2 What Are the Odds of That?: Coincidence and Surprise

3 Laying Down the Law: Why Casinos Always Win

4 Dealing the Cards: Bridge,Poker, and Blackjack

5 Murder Most Foul: Measuring Trends

6 Utility Functions: How to Make Decisions

7 White Lab Coats: What Studies Do and Don’t Show

8 Ain’t Gonna Happen: Very Low Probabilities

9 Interlude: The Case of the Collapsing Casino

10 Fifty-one Percent to Forty-nine Percent: The True Meaning of Polls

11 Nineteen Times Out of Twenty: Margins of Error

12 Randomness to the Rescue: When Uncertainty Is Your Friend

13 Evolution, Genes, and Viruses: Randomness in Biology

14 That Wily Monty Hall: Finding Probabilities from Clues

15 Spam, Spam, Probability, and Spam: Blocking Unwanted E-mail

16 Ignorance, Chaos, and Quantum Mechanics: Causes of Randomness

17 Final Exam: Do You Have Probability Perspective?

21. Index

22. Acknowledgements

23. About the Author

24. More Praise for Struck by Lightning

25. P.S. Ideas, interviews & features

26. Copyright

27. About the Publisher