Probability


Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
A First Course in Probability
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Introduction to Probability
Alasdair Gray
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

Jacques Monod
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesimal. At the present time we have no legitimate grounds for either asserting or denying that life got off to but a single start on earth, and that, as a consequence, before it appeared its chances of occurring were next to nil. ... Destiny is written co ...more
Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

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