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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface: L.A. Math
Mathematical Topics by Chapter
Chapter 1. A Change of Scene
Chapter 2. The Case of the Vanishing Greenbacks
Chapter 3. A Matter of Time
Chapter 4. The Worst Forty Days since the Flood
Chapter 5. The Accidental Guest
Chapter 6. Message from a Corpse
Chapter 7. Animal Passions
Chapter 8. Nothing to Crow About
Chapter 9. The Winning Streak
Chapter 10. One Long Season
Chapter 11. The Great Basketball Fix
Chapter 12. It’s All in the Game
Chapter 13. Division of Labor
Chapter 14. The Quarterback Controversy
Appendixes: Continuing the Investigations
1. Mathematical Logic in “A Change of Scene”
2. Percentages in “The Case of the Vanishing Greenbacks”
3. Averages and Rates in “A Matter of Time”
4. Sequences and Arithmetic Progressions in “The Worst Forty Days since the Flood”
5. Algebra, the Language of Quantitative Relationships, in “The Accidental Guest”
6. Mathematics of Finance in “Message from a Corpse”
7. Set Theory in “Animal Passions”
8. The Chinese Restaurant Principle: Combinatorics in “Nothing to Crow About”
9. Probability and Expectation in “The Winning Streak”
10. Conditional Probability in “One Long Season”
11. Statistics in “The Great Basketball Fix”
12. Game Theory in “It’s All in the Game”
13. Elections in “Division of Labor”
14. Algorithms, Efficiency, and Complexity in “The Quarterback Controversy”
An Introduction to Sports Betting
Notes
Index
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