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Mathematician Leonard Mlodinow, author of FEYNMAN'S RAINBOW and co-author with Stephen Hawking of A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME, has written a highly readable and mind-bending primer on the peculiar and often deceptive world of probability. Using a wealth of puzzles and anecdotes, from the famous Monty Hall problem to the O.J. Simpson case, he shows the powerful role randomness plays in our everyday lives. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.
| Size | | Length: | 252 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
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"Mlodinow...writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists like Jakob Bernouli, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Thomas Bayes. The result is a readable crash course in randomness and statistics that includes the clearest explanation I've encountered of the Monty Hall problem...."
(06/08/2008)
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