Books by Adam Kucharski

2. Adam Kucharski, The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling .  The subtitle is an exaggeration, nonetheless this is an interesting topic and book.  There is invariably a frustrating element to such an investigation, because the best schemes are hard to uncover or verify.  Nonetheless have you not thought — as I have — that a determined, Big Data-crunching, super smart entity could in fact beat the basketball odds just ever so slightly?