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

The Royal Institution August 3, 2016
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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. Watch the Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0XxbHnf5ro Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Adam's book "The Perfect Bet" is available now - 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, particularly emerging infections. Prior to this, he got a degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick, received a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge and had a post-doc position at Imperial College London. The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-po... Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter Product links on this page may be affiliate links which means it won't cost you any extra but we may earn a small commission if you decide to purchase through the link. #GamblingScience, #AdamKucharski, #LuckVsSkill, #ProbabilityInGambling, #ScienceOfChance

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