Who hasn’t heard about the “ideal bet” at least once in their life? Gamblers have been searching for centuries for a magic formula with which they can beat a casino or bookmaker, challenging Fortune itself. Recently, scientists have joined this search. Research into the principles and mechanisms of gambling - not always disinterested - has allowed some of them to make discoveries in various fields of science, from statistics to chaos theory and the design of artificial intelligence. Some of them also won a tidy sum. “Gambling is a veritable factory of incredible ideas, striking in their originality and audacity,” says mathematician and journalist Adam Kucharski, who tells the fascinating story of the exchange of ideas between science and the gambling industry in The Perfect Bet .