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Early in his rise to enlightenment, man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling. Recent advances in the field, particularly Parrondo's paradox, have triggered a surge of interest in the statistical and mathematical theory behind gambling. This interest was acknowledge in the motion picture, ""21,"" inspired by the true story of the MIT students who mastered the art of card counting to rea

Games of chance (Mathematics) --- Statistical decision --- Jeux de hasard (Mathématiques) --- Prise de décision (Statistique) --- ELSEVIER-B EPUB-LIV-FT --- Statistical decision. --- Decision problems --- Game theory --- Operations research --- Statistics --- Management science --- Gambling problem (Mathematics) --- Chance