How to Gamble If You Must

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2014, is an unabridged republication of the corrected 1976 Dover edition entitled Inequalities for Stochastic Processes which contained a new Bibliographic Supplement and a new Preface by Lester E. Dubins. The book was originally published as How to Gamble If You Must: Inequalities for Stochastic Processes in 1965 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. This 2014 edition contains a new Preface, an additional bibliographic supplement, Remarks on Open Problems, an Appendix on Finite Additivity, and an About the Authors page. All new material was provided by William Sudderth and David Gilat.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dubins, Lester E., 1920–

How to gamble if you must: inequalities for stochastic processes / Lester E. Dubins and Leonard J. Savage; edited with a new preface by William D. Sudderth and David Gilat.—Dover edition.

p. cm.

Originally published in 1965 as: How to gamble if you must. Republished in 1976 as: Inequalities for stochastic processes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN-13: 978-0-486-79608-6

1. Games of chance (Mathematics) 2. Gambling. 3. Stochastic inequalities. I. Savage, Leonard J. II. Sudderth, William D. III. Gilat, David (Mathematics professor) IV. Dubins, Lester E., 1920– Inequalities for stochastic processes. V Title. VI. Title: Inequalities for stochastic processes.

QA273.D77 2014
519.2′3—dc23

2014008632

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78064301 2014
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