Henk Tijms

Henk Tijms is emeritus professor of operations research at the VU and author of various textbooks on operations research and probability theory. His most recent book is Basic Probability, What Every Math Student Should Know, World Scientific Press, 2019. Home page: https://personal.vu.nl/h.c.tijms/

Articles by this author:

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  Bookie troubles

  What is the best bet to make? ...

  23 May 2022

  Henk Tijms

  Puzzle

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  Riddler Solitair

  A question of cards and jokers, a new OR conundrum ...

  09 May 2022

  Henk Tijms

  Column

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  Markov changed the world

  Markov Chains, Roulette and Google Search...

  20 December 2021

  Henk Tijms

  Academic

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  Kuhn-Tucker conditions, Gambling and Investing

  How to find the optimal investing strategy using Operations Research ...

  15 November 2021

  Henk Tijms

  Academic

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  The whims of a lottery

  Statistically improbable or just an expected outcome? ...

  07 June 2021

  Henk Tijms

  Column

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  How Rigged are Lotteries?

  On lottery scams and a slightly misleading Staatsloterij ...

  01 February 2021

  Henk Tijms

  Column

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  Christmas Puzzles with a Crazy Santa Claus

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  21 December 2020

  Henk Tijms

  Column

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  Russian Egg Roulette

  A comical game with an unexpected outcome...

  16 November 2020

  Henk Tijms

  Column

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