false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573386m/2272880.jpg 2272880 7 Leonard Mlodinow offers an irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives and how difficult it is to recognize. The Drunkard’s Walk reminds us that much in our lives is as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man, fresh from a night at the bar, and shows us what we should be paying attention to. Suppose you want to calculate the likelihood of tossing two coins and coming up with one head. The great 18th-century mathematician Jean Le Rond d’Alembert thought the answer was obvious: there are three possibilities, zero, one or two heads. So the odds for any one of those happening must be one in three. But as Leonard Mlodinow explains in “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives,” there are, in fact, four possible outcomes: heads-heads, heads-tails, tails-heads and tails-tails. So there is a 25 percent chance of throwing zero or two heads and a 50 percent chance of throwing just one. In the long run, anyone offering d’Alembert’s odds in a coin-flipping contest would lose his shirt. 2278900 13 5 2008 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives total:682|5:123|4:282|3:220|2:42|1:15| 682 2502 1805 235 4 20 false false Thu May 29 07:34:45 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 07:09:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 17:17:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 11:32:37 -0700 2008 Everything and More). But it's more fun than any 36 of 40 math teachers, so what the ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Aug 10 02:29:16 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 02:36:47 -0700 2008
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