By Jennifer Ouellette
Kiss My Math meets A journey of the Calculus
Jennifer Ouellette by no means took math in university, as a rule simply because she-like such a lot people-assumed that she would not desire it in actual existence. yet then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a transformation of middle and determined to revisit the equations and formulation that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the joys and interesting account of her 12 months spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette indicates how she realized to use calculus to every little thing from gasoline mileage to healthy eating plan, from the rides at Disneyland to capturing craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can research the basics of the common language.
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3 Casino Royale The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. —PIERRE-SIMON DE LAPLACE Legendary Vegas gambler Nick the Greek (aka Nicholas Andrea Dandolos) won and lost over $500 million in his lifetime by his own estimation, moving from rags to riches and back again countless times. Along the way, he met pretty much everyone, from Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel to the Marx Brothers, Ava Gardner, and John F. Kennedy. Every celebrity who visited Vegas wanted to meet the last of the true high rollers.
Ergo, 7 is the most likely number to be rolled. It’s no accident that the losing roll (craps) is 7 once the game gets under way. How does this play out when one takes into account the odds and payoffs for the various bets in craps? For the pass and don’t-pass bets, the payoff odds are one to one: Winners receive one dollar for each dollar they bet.
Cardano was a better gambler than a physician, it seems—or rather, he lacked the business acumen to market himself to prospective patients. He struggled mightily to support his family early in his career, and soon found himself resorting to gambling again to make ends meet. Eventually Fortune seemed to smile on him: He published a series of successful books and by 1550 became the renowned physician he’d always dreamed of being. If only he hadn’t had children. Cardano’s appalling offspring were a trio of bad seeds whose behavior would make Caligula blush.