ASYMMETRY AND DISORDER: A DECADE OF PARRONDO'S PARADOX

In 1996, Parrondo's games were first constructed using a simple coin tossing scenario, demonstrating the paradoxical situation where individually losing games combine to win. Parrondo's principle has become paradigmatic for situations where losing strategies or deleterious effects can combine to win. Intriguingly, there are deep connections between the Parrondo effect and a range of physical phenomena, as it turns out that Parrondo's original...