Chances and Troubles. Mathematics in Everyday Life

Can the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas? Is it true that it rains more often on weekends? Why is it that most things are always left to the last night? Why is it that ‘different strokes for different folks’ and you almost always have to wait a long time for the bus? It's time to find out how the Murphy's Law work - from the rule of a watermelon rind (‘when you buy a multidimensional watermelon, you buy mostly its rind’) to Ettore's observation (‘the other queue always moves faster’).

The imperfections of our world and the regularities of life have an objective mathematical justification. With the help of life examples, the author will introduce you to the world of non-school mathematics: Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, as well as related areas –Measure theory, Markov chains, stochastic processes, queues, dynamic chaos.