Reviews of papers
Blackjack / cards / gambling papers
Jack Berry:
Using probabilistic knowledge to play poker
(by Billings et al)
Brian Citro:
Optimal strategy in blackjack
(by Bladwin et al:
paper here
)
Aaron Ford:
Optimal strategy in blackjack
(by Bladwin et al:
paper here
)
Aom Kitichaiwat:
Probability models for blackjack poker
(by Crooke)
Brian Citro:
How many times should you shuffle a deck of cards
(by Mann:
paper here
)
Michael Grover:
8 ever, 9 never
(by Durango Bill:
paper is here
)
Andrew Kung:
Late game reversals in pro basketball, football and hockey
(Gill:
paper here
)
Sean Pegado:
Independent Chip Model and Risk Aversion
(by Gilbert:
paper here
)
Meghan Shea:
World record at Atlantic City
(by Eithier and Hoppe:
paper here
)
Central Limit Theorem
Crosby Fish:
The Central Limit Theorem and Poincare Inequalities
(by Chen:
paper here
)
Sean Pegado: Investigating the assumptions of the CLT (Pruss:
paper here
; see also
this paper
)
Sports papers
Ben Atkinson:
Derivation of Pythagorean Won-Loss Formula
(by Miller:
paper here
)
Chad Brown:
Derivation of Pythagorean Won-Loss Formula
(by Miller:
paper here
)
Economics papers
Zoe Xie:
Prospect Theory
(by Kahneman and Tversky:
paper here
)
Wentao Xiong:
When inflation causes no increase in claim
(Brazauskas et al:
paper here
)
Queuing theory
Ari Binder:
On the virtual and actual waiting time distributions of a GI/G/I queue
(Harrison and Lemoine)
Normalization constants
Chad Brown:
Probabilistic proof of Wallis' formula
(by Miller:
paper here
)
Andrew Liu:
Probabilistic proof of Wallis' formula
(by Miller:
paper here
)
Liyang Zhang:
Probabilistic proof of Wallis' formula
(by Miller:
paper here
)
Geometry
Ben Peskoe:
Lewis Carroll Problem: probability obtuse triangle
(by Portnoy:
paper here
)
Ben Peskoe:
Probability of complete intersection of random chords
(by Gates:
paper here
)
Number Theory
Ran Bi:
On the number of prime numbers less than a given quantity
(by Riemann:
paper here
)
Miscellaneous
Crosby Fish:
Order of decay of the wasted space....
(by Rhee:
paper here
)
David Moore:
Guided tour of Chernoff bounds
(by Hagerup and Rb)
Teresa Shirkova:
Virus propagation progress reports
(working paper, Kontorovich et al)
Wentao Xiong: Sleeping beauty paradox