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How Math Can Save Your Life
Stein, James D.
Hardcover:ハードカバー版  |
Preface.
Introduction: What Math Can Do for You.
1 The Most Valuable Chapter You Will Ever
Read.
Are service contracts for electronics and
appliances just a scam?
How likely are you to win at roulette?
Is it worth going to college?
2 How Math Can Help You Understand Sports
Strategy.
Why could Bart Simpson probably beat you at
rock, paper, scissors?
What are ""pure"" and ""mixed"" strategies?
Is a pass play or a run play more likely to
make a first down?
3 How Math Can Help Your Love Life.
How do you know when he or she is ""the
one""?
Whom should you ask to the senior prom?
Why are women reputed to be fickle while
men are steadfast?
4 How Math Can Help You Beat the Bookies.
Why should your lottery ticket contain
numbers greater than 31?
Can you overcome a negative expectation?
When should you bluff and when should you
fold?
5 How Math Can Improve Your Grades.
Will guessing on a multiple-choice test get
you a better score?
What test subject should you spend the most
time studying for?
What subject should you major in?
6 How Math Can Extend Your Life Expectancy.
How dangerous is it to speed?
Why might your prescription show the wrong
dosage?
Should you have a risky surgery or not?
7 How Math Can Help You Win Arguments.
Was the bailout the only way to save the
banks?
Do you really have logic on your side?
What are the first arithmetic tables
learned by children on Spock's home planet?
8 How Math Can Make You Rich.
How can you actually make money off credit
card companies?
Will refinancing your house actually save
money?
Is a hybrid car a better value?
9 How Math Can Help You Crunch the Numbers.
How did statistics help prevent cholera in
nineteenth-century London?
Why won't Andre Agassi and Steffi
Graf’s son be a tennis prodigy?
Are you more likely to meet someone over 7
feet tall or someone more than 100 years
old?
10 How Math Can Fix the Economy.
What is the ""Tulip Index""?
What doesn't the mortgage banking industry
understand about negative numbers?
What caused the stock market crash of 1929?
11 Arithmetic for the Next Generation.
How can you get your kids interested in
math?
What is the purpose of arithmetic?
How does Monopoly money make learning
division easier?
12 How Math Can Help Avert Disasters.
What caused the Challenger space shuttle
crash?
How could we have prevented much of the
damage from Hurricane Katrina?
How can you determine the possible cost of
a disaster?
13 How Math Can Improve Society.
How much is a human life worth in dollars?
When should legal cases be settled out of
court?
At what point does military spending become
unnecessary?
14 How Math Can Save the World.
Do extraterrestrial aliens exist?
How can we prevent nuclear war and a major
asteroid impact?
When is the world going to end?
Notes.
Index.
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