Index
Aczel, Amir, 81
Aeschylus, 88
AIDS, 101
Ainslee, Tom, 208
Allele, 30
American option, 132
Angel Eyes, 37
Arbitrage, 132
Army–Navy football game, 187
Babu, Jogesh, 85
Bacon, Kevin, 85
Bacon number, 85
Badminton, 35
Base invariance, 288
Bayesian inference, 255
Bayesian statistics, 122
Bayes, Reverend Thomas, 100
Bayes' rule, 100
in court trials, 110
in medical tests, 105
in polygraph tests, 116
Bell, E. T, 179
Bell-shaped curve, 194
Benford's law, 286
Bernoulli, John, Daniel, and Nicholas, 179
Bernoulli trials, 179
Bernstein, Peter, 84
Billingsley, Patrick, 85
Binary number system, 140, 291
Binomial coefficients, 45
Binomial distribution, 45, 137
Black, Fischer, 134
Blackjack, 215
basic strategy, 219
dealer's strategy, 217
doubling down, 216
splitting, 216
Blom, Gunnar, 237
Blondie, 37
Blood types, 117
Bold play, 222
Brodie, Henry, 242
Bromma airport, 16
Buffon, Count de, 175
Buffon's needle, 176
Byron, Lord, 209
Call option, 132
Carbon-14 dating, 162
Cash Five, 83
Cell population, 69
Central limit theorem, 199, 244
Chakraborty, Ranajit, 85
Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich, 170
Chebyshev's inequality, 170, 191
Chi-square test, 270
Churchill, Winston, 250
Coates, Robert, 177
Colorado State University, 183
Color blindness, 32
Combinatorics, ...
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