The Perfect Bet: How Science and Maths are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling - Tapa blanda

This book is full of magic. It's brimming with clever people and clever ideas... The links between betting and science run deep and wide, allowing Kucharski to cover some thrilling intellectual territory. (New Scientist)

Terrific: beautifully written, solidly researched and full of surprises (New York Times Numberplay blog)

Elegant and amusing ... anyone planning to enter a casino or place an online bet would be advised to
keep this book handy

(Wall Street Journal)

Great stories of how smart people have used maths, statistics and science to try and beat the odds - legally' (David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge)

A wild ride through the history, psychology, mathematics, and technology of gaming - a remarkable look behind the curtain of what most people think is intuitive, but isn't (Paul Offit, author of Bad Faith)

With an entertaining writing style, Adam Kucharski guides us through the history and state of the art of "The Perfect Bet," showing us how mathematics and computers are used to come up with optimal ways to gamble, play games, bluff, and invest our money. Extremely well-written and carefully researched. I highly recommend it. (Arthur Benjamin, Author of 'The Magic of Maths')

A lucid yet sophisticated look at the mathematics of probability as it's played out on gaming tables, arenas, and fields... Gamblers and math buffs alike will enjoy it for its smart approach to real-world problems (Kirkus Reviews)

[An] enjoyable... paean to human ingenuity, and a Robin Hood tale of wealth redistribution. (Daily Telegraph 2016-05-02)

Kucharski's clear prose and eye for an entertaining historical anecdote give his book an accessible feel... An enjoyable account. (Racing Post 2016-05-29)

Adam Kucharski is a lecturer in mathematical modelling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an award-winning science writer. Born in 1986, he studied at the University of Warwick before completing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He has published papers on topics ranging from statistics to social behaviour, and has worked on disease forecasting for avian influenza and Ebola. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, his popular science articles have appeared in the Observer, BBC Focus and Scientific American. He lives in London.