Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers - New Books, Etc - Book Review

Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers. Paul J. Nahin. Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. 2002. ISBN 0-691-10286-4. 280 pp. $18.95, softcover. Twenty-one probability problems by a professor who teaches the subject. None have appeared in print before, to his knowledge, at least in this form.

Although conceptually not difficult, he nevertheless considers them in a group of "more challenging, more interesting" problems. Examples: The curious case of the snowy birthdays, a different slice of probabilistic pi, the blind spider and the fly, and when negativity is a no-no.

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