Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Dynamics of Gambling: Origins of Randomness in Mechanical Systems

  • Book
  • © 2009

Overview

Authors:
  1. Jaroslaw Strzalko

    1. Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Juliusz Grabski

    1. Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Przemyslaw Perlikowski

    1. Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Andrzej Stefanski

    1. Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  5. Tomasz Kapitaniak

    1. Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Detailed and revealing information for gamblers and the gaming industry
  • Addresses deep questions concerning the nature of randomness
  • Useful for the general analysis of random effects in mechanical (engineering) systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 792)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Jarosław Strzałko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemysław Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak
    Pages 1-22

  3. General Motion of a Rigid Body

    • Jarosław Strzałko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemysław Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak
    Pages 23-39

  4. Equations of the Randomizer’s Dynamics

    • Jarosław Strzałko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemysław Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak
    Pages 41-95

  5. Dynamics and Predictability

    • Jarosław Strzałko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemysław Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak
    Pages 97-142

  6. Nature of Randomness in Mechanical Systems

    • Jarosław Strzałko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemysław Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak
    Pages 143-150

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 1-2
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Our everyday life is in?uenced by many unexpected (dif?cult to predict) events usually referred as a chance. Probably, we all are as we are due to the accumulation point of a multitude of chance events. Gambling games that have been known to human beings nearly from the beginning of our civilization are based on chance events. These chance events have created the dream that everybody can easily become rich. This pursuit made gambling so popular. This book is devoted to the dynamics of the mechanical randomizers and we try to solve the problem why mechanical device (roulette) or a rigid body (a coin or a die) operating in the way described by the laws of classical mechanics can behave in such a way and produce a pseudorandom outcome. During mathematical lessons in primary school we are taught that the outcome of the coin tossing experiment is random and that the probability that the tossed coin lands heads (tails) up is equal to 1/2. Approximately, at the same time during physics lessons we are told that the motion of the rigid body (coin is an example of suchabody)isfullydeterministic. Typically,studentsarenotgiventheanswertothe question Why this duality in the interpretation of the simple mechanical experiment is possible? Trying to answer this question we describe the dynamics of the gambling games based on the coin toss, the throw of the die, and the roulette run.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Division of Dynamics, Technical University of Lódz , Lodz, Poland

    Jaroslaw Strzalko, Juliusz Grabski, Przemyslaw Perlikowski, Andrzej Stefanski, Tomasz Kapitaniak

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation