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Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are ""hot"" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and psychology of gambling to reveal the most widely held misconceptions about luck. It exposes the hazards of feeling lucky, and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show when our chances of winning are actually good. Mathematician Joseph Mazur tra

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"What is time? Is there a secret, a theory, or a nucleus of knowledge that can bring that noun into focus, or at least into some spotlight for sharp inspection? Is it an illusion of invisible posts between the past, present, and future, connecting memories to expectations, to give the mind anticipation, hope, ambition, and, perhaps, a belief in destiny? For thousands of years we've been asking such questions, searching for some noun that we can envision or conceive, like weight or power. The Some philosophers tell us that time is just memory, nothing more. Others say it is an illusion of invisible transitions between the past, present, and future, connecting memories to expectations, to give the mind anticipation, hope, ambition, and, perhaps, a belief in destiny?

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