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IN THIS LECTURE we look at some of the basic ideas of probability theory. This has exciting applications in gambling which are inevitably misplaced. We start by considering tossing coins and throwing dice and then look at some unexpected examples where our intuition breaks down completely.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Probability. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_3
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