How Science is Taking the Luck out of Gambling – with Adam Kucharski

From the statisticians forecasting sports scores to the intelligent bots beating human poker players, Adam Kucharski traces the scientific origins of the world’s best gambling strategies.
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Adam’s book “The Perfect Bet” is available at present – https://geni.us/9Ao9j

Spanning mathematics, psychology, economics and physics, Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science, and explains how gambling shaped everything from probability to game theory, and chaos theory to artificial intelligence.

Adam Kucharski is a Lecturer at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where his research focusses on the dynamics of infectious diseases, especially emerging infections. Prior to this, he got a degree inwards mathematics from the University of Warwick, received a PhD inwards applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge and had a post-doc position at majestic College London.

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