Ideal bet. Kucharsky A.

The legend of the “ideal bet” is one of the favorite fairy tales of mankind. For centuries, lovers of gambling have been tormented by the question: how to find a magic formula, which will allow you to deceive cards, bones, roulette wheel... Lady of luck itself? However, the search for the “ideal bet” is not at all the joys of losers and gamers. Scientists are looking for her and not to no avail. Gambling had a serious impact on the most diverse areas of science - from the theory of games and statistics to the theory of chaos and technologies for the development of artificial intelligence. “Gambling is a real factory of incredible ideas, simple and sophisticated, impudent and absurd,” Adam Kucharsky is sure, a mathematician and a well -known popularizer of science.

The book contains a lot of interesting facts from the history of accurate sciences and gambling - from XVIII century to the present day. Adam Kucharsky tells not so much about the tricks of the roulette and the intricacies of higher mathematics as about human thinking as such - about the surprises that the universe presents the indefatigable researchers. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine ”, London. The holder of the scientific degree (PhD) in mathematics of the University of Cambridge. Was engaged in research in the field of statistics and social behavior; He took part in the investigation of the reasons for the epidemics of bird flu and the fever of Ebola. Permanent author of Nautilus, BBC Focus, Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist, Financial Times and The Observer. Wellcome Trust charity winner for scientific and educational activities.

Adam lives in London. The ideal bet is its first book.