Sergey Samoilenko about the benefits of statistics

"Laws of meanness" exist! The book of Sergei Samoilenko “Pays and troubles. Mathematics of everyday life ”will introduce you to them and show you that they are mathematically beautiful. And besides, they can benefit from them in a variety of everyday situations where there is uncertainty and multivariance.

Can a wave of wings of a butterfly in Brazil call a tornado in Texas? Is it true that rains are more often on the weekend? Why is most of the things always on the last night? Why “there are no comrades to the taste and color of the comrades, and the bus almost always has to wait long? The time has come to find out how the “Laws of meanness” work - from the law of watermelon crust (“Buying a multidimensional watermelon, you acquire mostly its crust”) before the observation of Ettor (“The neighboring line always moves faster”).

The imperfection of our world and life patterns have an objective mathematical justification. With the help of life examples, the author will introduce you to the world of non -school mathematics: the theory of probability and mathematical statistics, as well as adjacent regions - the theory of measures, the Markov chains, stochastic processes, lines, and dynamic chaos.

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