Teaching a university course on the mathematics of gambling
History and Overview
2020-02-24 v2 Probability
Abstract
Courses on the mathematics of gambling have been offered by a number of colleges and universities, and for a number of reasons. In the past 15 years, at least seven potential textbooks for such a course have been published. In this article we objectively compare these books for their probability content, their gambling content, and their mathematical level, to see which ones might be most suitable, depending on student interests and abilities. This is not a book review (e.g., none of the books is recommended over others) but rather an essay offering advice about which topics to include in a course on the mathematics of gambling.
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@article{arxiv.1911.03008,
title = {Teaching a university course on the mathematics of gambling},
author = {Stewart N. Ethier and Fred M. Hoppe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03008},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
44 pages, 1 figure file; v2 has new discussion of lotteries