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Monthly Archives: March 2020

The Math behind Against the Day (Part 1): How to win at roulette

Yashmeen Halfcourt is a mathematician and one of the major characters in Pynchon’s book “Against the Day”. And she seems to have figured out a way to beat the odds in roulette using prime numbers? But then wheels all up and down the Riviera, at Nice, Cimiez, Monte Carlo, Mentone, through the winter season and…

March 10, 2020 in Against The Day, Math, Pynchon.

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