Book review: ‘Ten Great Ideas about Chance’
Book review: ‘Ten Great Ideas about Chance’
- February 12, 2018
- Brian Skyrms, LPS, via ZME Science, Feb. 12, 2018
This book traces ten great ideas that shaped the field, exploring the mathematical, historical, philosophical, even psychological aspects of probability and statistics. Accessible, yet meticulous in its math, Persi Diaconis and [UCI Professor] Brian Skyrms‘ Ten Great Ideas about Chance is an instructive but fun lecture.
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