This book explores four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory. It can be
used to supplement a standard text in probability or statistics. Most elementary textbooks …

This book brings together a variety of probability applications through entertaining stories
that will appeal to a broad readership. What are the best stopping rules for the dating …

'The style is clear and lively. The treatment... is remarkably accurate. In short, it is a good
book."—Scientific Monthly To understand the laws behind chance and probability, you don't …

Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Mathematics from The American Publishers Awards
for Professional and Scholarly Excellence." A great book, one that I will certainly add to my …

Many probability books are written by mathematicians and have the built in bias that the
reader is assumed to be a mathematician coming to the material for its beauty. This textbook …

In a world where we are constantly being asked to make decisions based on incomplete
information, facility with basic probability is an essential skill. This book provides a solid …

We, the authors of this book, are three ardent devotees of chance, or some what more
precisely, of discrete probability. When we were collecting the material, we felt that one …

Everyone knows some of the basics of probability, perhaps enough to play cards. Beyond
the introductory ideas, there are many wonderful results that are unfamiliar to the layman …

This third edition is a revised, updated, and greatly expanded version of previous edition of
2001. The 1300+ exercises contained within are not merely drill problems, but have been …

This book is aimed at providing additional practice problems for a noncalculus course in
probability and statistics. The authors have attempted to include problems requiring more …