three degrees of separation, 13
tic-tac-toe, 26–28, 154, 157, 158–159, 160
Time (magazine), 211
Tinsley, Marion, 154, 156, 159, 160, 185
tit-for-tat behavior, 161
tote boards, 44, 45, 56, 65, 67
trading. See stock exchanges; stock/financial markets
traditional bookmakers, 95
trifecta, 57
trigger events, 120–121, 122, 130
triple trio, 57, 64
trustworthiness, 192
Tse, Chi Kong, 15–18, 22
Turing, Alan, 169–171, 171–172, 176, 177, 182, 188–189, 190, 194
Tutte, Bill, 26
21 (film), 214
Twitter feed, 120–121, 122, 123
UK Grand National, 84
Ulam, Stanislaw, 58–61, 64, 82–83, 168–169, 180, 202, 217
ultraweak solutions, 158, 159
uncertainty, 16, 51, 58, 64, 112, 153, 173, 216
uniform distribution, 41
university gambling courses, 213–216, 215
University of Salford, 106
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, 198
US Congress, 136, 137
US Constitution, 150
US Department of Defense, 92
US Federal Reserve, 133
US Masters, 84
US National Checker Championship, 156
US Open, 88–89
US Supreme Court, 201
Veiby, Peder, 119
Venetian casino, 87
Venn diagram, 87
Verhulst, Pierre, 125–126
volatility, clustered, 162
Voler La Vedette bot, 116–117, 119
von Neumann, John, 60–61, 138–139, 142, 145, 147–148, 149, 150, 151–152, 168–169, 170, 172, 177, 181–182, 208, 217
Voulgaris, Haralabos, 85–86, 91, 107
Wagenaar, Willem, 179
Walford, Roy, 3–4, 7, 21
Walters, Billy, 81, 82
Wang, Zhijian, 178
Watson, 165–167, 171, 190
Watson, Thomas, 166
weak solutions, 158, 159
weather, 9, 13, 19, 53
website navigation, 194
Weinstein, Jack, 200, 201
Wiener, Norbert, 211
Wilson, Allan, 7, 8
Wilson, Woodrow, 84
win-stay lose-shift strategy, 178
Wired (magazine), 28
Wohl, Mike, 102
Wood, Greg, 117
Woods, Alan, 39, 43, 45–46, 57, 68
World Cup (soccer), 113, 205
World Series of Poker, 140–141, 144, 145
York University course, 215
Yorke, James, 13
zero-sum games, 145–147, 149, 161, 181
ADAM KUCHARSKI is a lecturer in mathematical modeling 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 behavior, and has worked on the outbreak analysis of avian influenza and Ebola. Winner of the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, he has contributed popular science articles to Nautilus, BBC Focus, and Scientific American magazines. He lives in London.