Pt. I Solon's warning 1 If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart? 5 2 A bizarre accounting method 22 3 A mathematical meditation on history 43 4 Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual 70 5 Survival of the least fit - can evolution be fooled by randomness? 79 6 Skewness and asymmetry 97 7 The problem of induction 116 Pt. II Monkeys on typewriters 8 Too many millionaires next door 139 9 It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg 149 10 Loser takes all - on the nonlinearities of life 172 11 Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind 182 Pt. III Wax in my ears 12 Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box 226 13 Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism 234 14 Bacchus abandons antony 245 Epilogue : Solon told you so 250 Postscript : three afterthoughts in the shower 253
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