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    The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
    The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
    The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling

    Written by Adam Kucharski

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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    About this audiobook

    Bringing together ideas from mathematics, psychology, economics and physics, The Perfect Bet traces the origins of successful betting methods. From the simple to the intricate, and the audacious to the absurd, Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science, and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision-making today. Covering exploits and ideas from across the globe, he meets the teams behind hedge funds that capitalize on inaccurate sports betting odds, and explains how PhD-level pundits are using methods originally developed for the U. S. nuclear program to predict sports results. Kucharski reveals why winning at chess depends on luck-but victory in checkers does not-and why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence. He also explores the difficulties of mimicking human behavior, and explains what caused one hedge fund's rogue algorithm to lose them $400,000 per second in the summer of 2012.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9781681680590
    The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
    Author

    Adam Kucharski

    Adam Kucharski is an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A mathematician by training, his work on global outbreaks has included Ebola, Zika and COVID-19, and he has produced real-time analysis for multiple governments and health agencies. He is a TED senior fellow and winner of the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture and the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. The author of The Perfect Bet, his writing has appeared in the Observer, Financial Times, Wired and New Statesman.

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      Book was OK, w a bias towards European research and sports industries by the British author. Not overly mathematical, and ample mention of the origins of betting theory in America. It was an easier read than I thought it would be, an it isn't really going to help you be a more successful gambler. A lot of talk about betting bots on the Internet.