Adam Kucharski

The Perfect Bet

Taking the Luck out of Gambling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to how the world's smartest gamblers are using science to take on the house - and win - whether they're playing blackjack, having a flutter at the racetrack, buying scratch cards or laying in-play football bets at the bookies'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 238g
• ISBN-13: 9781781255476
• ISBN-10: 1781255474
• Artikelnr.: 46169989

Autorenporträt

Adam Kucharski is a researcher at Imperial College London and an award-winning science writer. Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers on topics ranging from evolutionary biology to the social structure of epidemics, and in 2013 was awarded a research fellowship by the UK Medical Research Council to investigate disease emergence in Southeast Asia. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, his popular science articles have appeared in the Observer newspaper and BBC Focus and BBC Plus magazines. He currently lives in London.

Rezensionen

This book is full of magic. It's brimming with clever people and clever ideas... The links between betting and science run deep and wide, allowing Kucharski to cover some thrilling intellectual territory. New Scientist