The Dice Man is a 1971 novel by English novelist George Cockcroft, writing under the pen name, "Luke Rhinehart". The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a diсe. Cockcroft describes the origin of the title idea variously in interviews, once recalling a college "quirk" he and friends used to decide "what they were going to do that night" based on a die-roll, or sometimes to decide between mildly mischievous pranks. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy user site describes the novel as a book that was viewed as subversive, as having "anti-psychiatry sentiment", and as "reflecting the mood of the early 1970s in permissiveness". It has content that includes the protagonist's decisions to engage in rape and murder, and is described as having been "banned in several countries". At the time of its publication, "[i]t was not clear whether the book was fiction or autobiography", all the more because the protagonist and the alleged author were eponymous; both were described as having the same profession (psychiatry), and elements of the described lives of both (e.g., places of residence, date of birth) were also in common; hence, curiosity over its authorship have persisted since its publication. Years later, in 1999, Emmanuel Carrère, writing for The Guardian, presented a long-form expose on Cockroft and the relationship between author and legend, disclosing him as a life-long English professor living "in an old farmhouse with a yard that slopes down to a duck pond", a husband of fifty-years, father of three, and a caregiver to a special-needs child. On its initial publication, the cover bore the confident subheader, "Few novels can change your life. This one will"; in the United States this was altered to read, "This book will change your life". The book quickly became, and remains thought of as a cult classic. Writing in 2017 for The Guardian, Tanya Gold noted that "over the course of 45 years" it was still in print, had become famous, had devoted fans, and had "sold more than 2m copies in multiple languages". As well, it has been republished a number of times. It initially sold poorly in the United States, but well in Europe, particularly England, Sweden, Denmark, and Spain. Cockroft continued themes of the book in two other novels, Adventures of Wim (1986) and The Search for the Dice Man (1993), and in a companion title, The Book of the Die (2000), none of which achieved the commercial success of The Dice Man. (Wikipedia).
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From playlist Dice
For more details, see http://thedicelab.com/BalancedStdPoly.html These dice are available from http://www.mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html
From playlist Dice
How do I make a round dice set?
Today I will make some unusual dice. They will not be square but round and we will make them completely out of metal, with a wooden stand. Enjoy! #dice#W&M#lathe
From playlist Random problems
Pig is a simple dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945. Roll a couple dice...add them up. Beware of the number one! Read more about this game: https://theothermath.com/index.php/2020/04/10/pig
From playlist Games and puzzles
Learn how to STACK DICE ft. Mike Boyd
Mike's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/microboyd Mike Boyd from Learn Quick is teaching me how to Stack Dice! I also show Mike some magic using dice. Thanks for watching and go check out his channel, one of my favorites! SECRET LINK: http://amzn.to/2CwayyZ LEARN A TRICK I CREATED
From playlist THE VLOG
Florida Conference 2021: Steve Phelps
Steve Phelps "Intuition, Simulation, Calculation: Teaching Probability in a Pandemic" More information: https://www.geogebra.org/m/d7fbacn3
From playlist GeoGebra Florida Conference 2021
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From playlist Dice
Question video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mevTXrenioQ Next puzzle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNne9eLJsFs Music by Bertrand Laurence http://www.bertrandlaurence.com used with permission. Find me on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/YouTubeTyYann
From playlist Tricks and Math Puzzles answers
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From playlist Dice
There is always a glimpse of pure joy when, while working on a problem, you discover that a possible way to get an answer is hidden in an area of Mathematics which seems unrelated. We present you a problem about dice which at first seems incredible, and maybe very boring to check. Then..
From playlist Summer of Math Exposition Youtube Videos
Prediction of Indian summer monsoon: by Elena Surovyatkina
PROGRAM DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2018 ORGANIZERS Amit Apte, Soumitro Banerjee, Pranay Goel, Partha Guha, Neelima Gupte, Govindan Rangarajan and Somdatta Sinha DATE: 16 June 2018 to 30 June 2018 VENUE: Ramanujan hall for Summer School held from 16 - 25 June, 2018; Madhava hall for W
From playlist Dynamics of Complex systems 2018
Speaker: PAUL WILSON REAL HUSTLER The Art of the Con. Paul Wilson is the writer and star of "The Real Hustle" and creator of "The Takedown" on Court TV and "Scammed" on The History Channel. He is one of the world's finest magicians and an expert on cons, scams, casino cheating and gambli
From playlist DEFCON 20
Brian Hopkins - Difference Dice - G4G13 April 2018
Among the many amateur mathematicians championed by Martin Gardner, George Sicherman is now known for two 6-sided dice that are not labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 yet have the same frequencies of sums as a standard pair. Finding such dice for various sizes is a nice application of factoring poly
From playlist G4G13 Videos
Monte Carlo Simulation and Python 13 - D'Alembert Strategy
Monte Carlo Simulation with Python Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_KPXwnrlE&feature=share&list=PLQVvvaa0QuDdhOnp-FnVStDsALpYk2hk0 In this video, we program the D'Alembert Strategy. The D'Alembert betting strategy is a progressive betting strategy that uses increments rather th
From playlist Monte Carlo Simulation with Python
Joe M. Turner - Dice Dice Baby! - CoM Oct 2020
Joe M. Turner, usually found with a pack of cards in his hand, veers into somewhat less-traveled territory with this collection of interesting magic tricks and puzzles using dice. Some material is drawn from Gardner; some routines come from other sources. While some of it is mathematical,
From playlist Celebration of Mind
Lecture 2 - Mathematical Preliminaries
This is Lecture 2 of the CSE519 (Data Science) course taught by Professor Steven Skiena [http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/] at Stony Brook University in 2016. The lecture slides are available at: http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/519 More information may be found here: http://www.
From playlist CSE519 - Data Science Fall 2016
1,296 and Yahtzee - Numberphile
There is a one in 1,296 of me achieving a one-roll Yahtzee... So here goes! More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Viewer Yahtzees: http://bit.ly/yahtzeerolls NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphi
From playlist Yahtzee on Numberphile