Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games, Hardcover by Maitra, Ashok P.; Sudder...-image

Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games, Hardcover by Maitra, Ashok P.; Sudder...

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Item Width: 6.1 in Publication Year: 1996 Subject Area: Mathematics, Games & Activities Language: English Series: Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability Ser. gtin13: 9780387946283 Subject: Game Theory, Probability & Statistics / General, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling) Publisher: Springer New York Number of Pages: Xii, 244 Pages Publication Name: Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games Author: Ashok P. Maitra, William D. Sudderth Item Weight: 42.3 Oz Type: Textbook Book Title: Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games Item Length: 9.2 in Item Height: 0.3 in ISBN: 9780387946283 Format: Hardcover

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Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games, Hardcover by Maitra, Ashok P.; Sudderth, William D., ISBN 0387946284, ISBN-13 9780387946283, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The theory of probability began in the seventeenth century with attempts to calculate the odds of winning in certain games of chance. However, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that mathematicians de veloped general techniques for maximizing the chances of beating a casino or winning against an intelligent opponent. These methods of finding op timal strategies for a player are at the heart of the modern theories of stochastic control and stochastic games. There are numerous applications to engineering and the social sciences, but the liveliest intuition still comes from gambling. The now classic work How to Gamble If You Must: Inequalities for Stochastic Processes by Dubins and Savage (1965) uses gambling termi nology and examples to develop an elegant, deep, and quite general theory of discrete-time stochastic control. A gambler "controls" the stochastic pro cess of his or her successive fortunes by choosing which games to play and what bets to make.

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