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
All of Statistics by Larry WassermanStatistical Inference by George CasellaPrinciples of Statistics by David KrusPrinciples of Statistics by M.G. BulmerIntroduction to Probability by Joseph K. Blitzstein
Probability & Statistics
28 books — 28 voters

Here One Moment by Liane MoriartyThe Last Policeman by Ben H. WintersI Will Always Write Back by Caitlin AlifirenkaThe Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola YoonRecipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
Books with actuaries
9 books — 1 voter
Category Theory in Context by Emily RiehlOn Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica... by Kurt GödelA Book of Abstract Algebra by Charles C. PinterUndecidable Theories by Alfred TarskiSet Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis by Paul Cohen
Dover Mathematics
891 books — 37 voters

George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

Vera Nazarian
Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the raz ...more
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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