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20 Aug, 2008

The Drunkard’s Walk, by Leonard Mlodinow

Posted by: John In: Books

Eh, it’s an okay book. Not wonderful. Doesn’t know whether it’s a history of probability or a primer on it, and as a result tends to shift between being (1) sorta basic, (2) sorta boring, and (3) sorta esoteric. Nothing super new in it for me, didn’t really think it was useful, except to remind me of some things I’ve forgotten since Stats 116.

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