L.A. math : romance, crime, and mathematics in the City of Angels /

"Move over, Sherlock and Watson--the detective duo of Carmichael and Lennox shows how math smarts can crack even the most perplexing cases. In the entertaining short-story collection L.A. Math, freelance investigator Freddy Carmichael meets colorful personalities throughout Los Angeles and enco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, James D., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Criminal investigation > Fiction.
Mathematics > Fiction.
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Enquêtes criminelles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mathématiques > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mathématiques > Miscellanées.
FICTION > Mystery & Detective > General.
FICTION > General.
Criminal investigation
Mathematics
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
California > Los Angeles
Fiction
Trivia and miscellanea
Mystery fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • MATHEMATICAL TOPICS BY CHAPTER
  • CHAPTER 1. A Change of Scene
  • CHAPTER 2. The Case of the Vanishing Greenbacks
  • CHAPTER 3. A Matter of Time
  • CHAPTER 4. The Worst Forty Days since the Flood
  • CHAPTER 5. The Accidental Guest
  • CHAPTER 6. Message from a Corpse
  • CHAPTER 7. Animal Passions
  • CHAPTER 8. Nothing to Crow About
  • CHAPTER 9. The Winning Streak
  • CHAPTER 10. One Long Season
  • CHAPTER 11. The Great Basketball Fix
  • CHAPTER 12. It's All in the Game
  • CHAPTER 13. Division of Labor
  • CHAPTER 14. The Quarterback Controversy
  • APPENDIXES: Continuing the Investigations
  • 1. Mathematical Logic in "A Change of Scene"
  • 2. Percentages in "The Case of the Vanishing Greenbacks"
  • 3. Averages and Rates in "A Matter of Time"
  • 4. Sequences and Arithmetic Progressions in "The Worst Forty Days since the Flood"
  • 5. Algebra, the Language of Quantitative Relationships, in "The Accidental Guest"
  • 6. Mathematics of Finance in "Message from a Corpse"
  • 7. Set Theory in "Animal Passions"
  • 8. The Chinese Restaurant Principle: Combinatorics in "Nothing to Crow About"
  • 9. Probability and Expectation in "The Winning Streak"
  • 10. Conditional Probability in "One Long Season"
  • 11. Statistics in "The Great Basketball Fix"
  • 12. Game Theory in "It's All in the Game"
  • 13. Elections in "Division of Labor"
  • 14. Algorithms, Efficiency, and Complexity in "The Quarterback Controversy"
  • An Introduction to Sports Betting
  • Notes
  • Index.

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