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• Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind The Neon
• The Mathematics Calendar 2015
• Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide
• MyMathLab: Student Access Kit

Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind The Neon Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:39 PM PDT Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing, and lotteries. The book helps readers understand the mathematical reasons why some gambling games are better for the player than others. It is also suitable as a textbook for an introductory course on probability. Along with discussing the mathematics of well-known casino games, the author examines game variations that have been proposed or used in actual casinos. Numerous examples illustrate the mathematical ideas in a range of casino games while end-of-chapter exercises go beyond routine calculations to give readers hands-on experience with casino-related computations. The book begins with a brief historical introduction and mathematical preliminaries before developing the essential results and applications of elementary probability, including the important idea of mathematical expectation. The author then addresses probability questions arising from a variety of games, including roulette, craps, baccarat, blackjack, Caribbean stud poker, Royal Roulette, and sic bo. The final chapter explores the mathematics behind "get rich quick" schemes, such as the martingale and the Iron Cross, and shows how simple mathematics uncovers the flaws in these systems.

The Mathematics Calendar 2015 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:37 PM PDT Now more than ever The Mathematics Calendar reminds us how mathematics describes nature, impacts the sciences, is essential to architecture, influences the arts, is inseparable from music, exercises and tantalizes the mind with its puzzles and problems, stimulates and creates new technologies, and reveals the multi-dimensions of our world and universe through its ever evolving ideas and insights. The 2015 calendar includes twelve new fascinating math topics illustrating the incredible influence of mathematics on our lives. Each day of every month has a problem, whose solution is the date. The brain teaser lies in figuring how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one method of solving the date's problem. For each month, the problems range from arithmetic to calculus. Each month's text, photos and graphics have a wealth of information and are even sprinkled with a bit of humor. The twelve topics feature exciting, historic and current math ideas and topics. Theoni Pappas is committed to demystifying mathematics. The Mathematics Calendar has given thousands of people a new perspective about math —it can be fun, fascinating & intriguing.

Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide Posted: 29 Jun 2014 08:04 AM PDT If you have had any sort of encounter with logic (I've had propositional, predicate, and a touch of modal logic) this book will be a fun overview of the history of logic and important figures in the science. It covers classical, fuzzy, and quantum logic and explores the attempts to found mathematics on logical foundations (Frege, Russell). The ideas of all the greats are introduced with ease (Leibniz, Godel, Hilbert, Aristotle, Quine, Davidson, Turing, Wittgenstein, etc). And it details how computers have their basis in logical systems. It's presented in cartoonish fashion, but is an intelligent (and not a dumbed down) overview of the subject. Someone who has not had logic will benefit from a couple of readings. As the book is not long this shouldn't be difficult (it might just be all you'd ever need or want to know about the subject). There is a section of further reading that recommends one of the best 1st order logic book - Tomassi - that I've encountered. The other recommendations are perfect for one who wants to delve deeper into this fascinating field.

MyMathLab: Student Access Kit Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:45 AM PDT I am a college professor who uses My Math Lab.  I also love amazon and their customer service. For a few semesters, mainly 2010-2011 while Pearson was making updates codes did not work. MY code would not even work. We, too, went through the rigamaroe with Pearson that the college was selling invalid codes, blah, blah. If you bought online with a credit card you were good to go but access codes were all saying invalid. The sad part is as far as I know, Pearson NEVER owned up to the problem being their fault. My students and I were able to finally access MML thanks to a Pearson rep who gave me a back door code. We did not have any issues last year so I think you are safe to buy the code from Amazon. Why in eWorld the price keeps increasing is beyond me....but as another reviewer stated, "It's a racket". As a former college student, teacher, mother of 3 college graduates and a son who is a college junior, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE!!!! By M. Loghry "matheduc8tor"

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