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From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent bots beating human poker players, Adam Kucharski traces the scientific origins of the world's best gambling strategies.
Spanning mathematics, psychology, economics and physics, he reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science, and explains how gambling shaped everything from probability to game theory, and chaos theory to artificial intelligence.
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2016-06-01 2016-06-01 Europe/London The perfect bet: How science and maths are taking the luck out of gambling From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent bots beating human poker players Adam Kucharski traces the scientific origins of the world s best gambling strategies https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/06/01/the-perfect-bet-how-science-and-maths-are-taking-the-luck-out-of-gambling-101189 The Royal Institution of Great Britain,,21 Albemarle Street London,LondonLocation
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