How Math Can Save Your Life By Stein, James D. Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Inc Published Date : 2010/03 Binding : Hardcover ISBN : 9780470437759 BookWeb Price : THB 750.00 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : THB 675.00 Availability Status : Our fulfillment centre has the item in stock. Usually dispatches within 3 working days. Language : English

 
    Preface.
    Introduction: What Math Can Do for You.
    1 The Most Valuable Chapter You Will Ever
    Read.
    Are service contracts for electronics and
    appliances just a scam?
    How likely are you to win at roulette?
    Is it worth going to college?
    2 How Math Can Help You Understand Sports
    Strategy.
    Why could Bart Simpson probably beat you at
    rock, paper, scissors?
    What are ""pure"" and ""mixed"" strategies?
    Is a pass play or a run play more likely to
    make a first down?
    3 How Math Can Help Your Love Life.
    How do you know when he or she is ""the
    one""?
    Whom should you ask to the senior prom?
    Why are women reputed to be fickle while
    men are steadfast?
    4 How Math Can Help You Beat the Bookies.
    Why should your lottery ticket contain
    numbers greater than 31?
    Can you overcome a negative expectation?
    When should you bluff and when should you
    fold?
    5 How Math Can Improve Your Grades.
    Will guessing on a multiple-choice test get
    you a better score?
    What test subject should you spend the most
    time studying for?
    What subject should you major in?
    6 How Math Can Extend Your Life Expectancy.
    How dangerous is it to speed?
    Why might your prescription show the wrong
    dosage?
    Should you have a risky surgery or not?
    7 How Math Can Help You Win Arguments.
    Was the bailout the only way to save the
    banks?
    Do you really have logic on your side?
    What are the first arithmetic tables
    learned by children on Spock's home planet?
    8 How Math Can Make You Rich.
    How can you actually make money off credit
    card companies?
    Will refinancing your house actually save
    money?
    Is a hybrid car a better value?
    9 How Math Can Help You Crunch the Numbers.
    How did statistics help prevent cholera in
    nineteenth-century London?
    Why won't Andre Agassi and Steffi
    Graf’s son be a tennis prodigy?
    Are you more likely to meet someone over 7
    feet tall or someone more than 100 years
    old?
    10 How Math Can Fix the Economy.
    What is the ""Tulip Index""?
    What doesn't the mortgage banking industry
    understand about negative numbers?
    What caused the stock market crash of 1929?
    11 Arithmetic for the Next Generation.
    How can you get your kids interested in
    math?
    What is the purpose of arithmetic?
    How does Monopoly money make learning
    division easier?
    12 How Math Can Help Avert Disasters.
    What caused the Challenger space shuttle
    crash?
    How could we have prevented much of the
    damage from Hurricane Katrina?
    How can you determine the possible cost of
    a disaster?
    13 How Math Can Improve Society.
    How much is a human life worth in dollars?
    When should legal cases be settled out of
    court?
    At what point does military spending become
    unnecessary?
    14 How Math Can Save the World.
    Do extraterrestrial aliens exist?
    How can we prevent nuclear war and a major
    asteroid impact?
    When is the world going to end?
    Notes.
    Index.