Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Crabs and Criminals
1.2 Transitions Between States
2.4 An Inheritance in the Talmud and Madoff’s Scheme
2.5 A Few Mathematical Details
Chapter 3. While the City Burns
3.3 The Inverse Square-Root Law
3.4 The Encumbrance of an Urban Grid
3.6 How Busy are the Fire Companies?
3.7 Optimal Deployment of Fire Companies
Chapter 5. A Bayesian Take on Colorectal Screening, Baseball, Fund Managers, and a Murder
5.6 Batting Averages and a Paradox
5.7 A Few Mathematical Details
5.8 Comparing Apples and Oranges
Chapter 6. What Are the Odds of That?
6.2 Coincidence and Near-Coincidence
6.3 A Few Mathematical Details
6.4 Fire Alarms, Bomb Hits, and Baseball Streaks
6.5 Not a Designer but a Gardener
6.7 Stock Funds and Baseball Streaks, Redux
Chapter 7. It’s Normal Not to Be Normal
7.4 A Few Mathematical Details
8.3 Unstable Equilibria and Cyclic Behavior
8.4 A Second Look at the Fishery Model
8.5 A Restricted-Access Fishery
Chapter 9. Viral Outbreaks and Blood Clots
9.3 Chaotic Dynamics or Randomness?
9.4 Predator-Mediated Coexistence
9.6 Viral Contamination of Algae
Chapter 10. Red Tides and Whatever Happened to the Red Squirrel?
10.5 The Spread of the Gray Squirrel
10.6 Rabid Foxes and Traffic Congestion
Chapter 11. Spatial Patterns: The Cat’s Tail and Spreading Slime
Appendix A. The Normal Density
Appendix C. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Oscillations