Month: January 2011
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Martingale Strategy simulation on Roulette
Good afternoon everybody, I know that most people who have a slight background in probability theory try to apply it to casinos games. I even reckon that most teachers now choose this approach to interest their students to the field. However, I have the chance to know people working in casinos, and I know too…
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“The Quants”, a great book that everybody can read.
Good morning again, I decided to create a new section in the blog dedicated to a selection of books. Indeed, I personally find it hard to find the right book to buy on a specific topic, and sometimes their are so many choices that I do not necessarily know how to pick the right one. I…
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Penalty Shots in Ice Hockey: a game-theoretic approach.
Good afternoon everybody, As I promised a few days ago, I am now uploading the first research I made regarding game theory applications to Sports. As you have probably guessed by now, the aim of this project was to model the penalty shot situation in Ice Hockey, and to find the equilibrium. This research was…
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What about Game Theory?
Hi everybody, Just a little introductory post about the “Game Theory” section of this blog. I like to say that game theory is the link between mathematics, economics and human behavior. It is a special field of mathematics aimed to analyze and understand conflicting situations. A comprehensive summary of the field is available on this…
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Here we go!
Hi everybody, welcome to my blog. I am trying this experience in order to share thoughts, studies and research I’ve made recently. Since most of the articles I will be publishing on this blog will be in English, I decided to adopt this language for this website. Basically, the topics I will discuss in here…