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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 : A Brief History of Chance
Chapter 2 : Tossing Coins and Having Babies
Chapter 3 : Dice
Chapter 4 : Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools
Chapter 5 : “Serious” Gambling: Roulette, Cards, and Horse Racing
Chapter 6 : Balls, Birthdays, and Coincidences
Chapter 7 : Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
Chapter 8 : Puzzling Probabilities
Chapter 9 : Taking Risks
Chapter 10 : Statistics, Statisticians, and Medicine
Chapter 11 : Alternative Therapies: Panaceas or Placebos?
Chapter 12 : Chance, Chaos, and Chromosomes
Epilog
Sources
Credits
Index
