Incidentally, while having a look for Ruelle's book on thermodynamic formalism I stumbled upon a book title something along the lines of "the dynamics of roulet

Incidentally, while having a look for Ruelle's book on thermodynamic formalism I stumbled upon a book title something along the lines of "the dynamics of roulette". I expected something about rare events in probability theory, perhaps betting strategies for optimising expected profit for certain levels of risk, but it ended up being on the mechanics of the roulette table itself - pages upon pages of hefty calculations of roulette balls including spin, velocity etc etc. It is crazy how much effort people put into getting an edge at a game.