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This book tracks the search for a sure way to win at gambling. It starts in the 1700s and runs to today. Cards, dice and roulette raise questions for players and scientists. These questions helped shape game theory and statistics. They also helped shape chaos theory and artificial intelligence.

This book tells the history of science for general readers. Адам Кучарски works in maths and writes about science for the public. His main focus is how people think. He gives less weight to betting tricks or advanced maths. He looks at the ideas that come from gambling. He shows how tests of those ideas can surprise researchers.