Grinstead and Snell's Introduction to Probability
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Book Overview
This is an introductory probability textbook, published by the American Mathematical Society. It is designed for an introductory probability course taken by mathematics, the physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science students. The text can be used in a variety of course lengths, levels, and areas of emphasis. For use in a standard one-term course, in which both discrete and continuous probability is covered, students should have taken as a prerequisite two terms of calculus, including an introduction to multiple integrals. In order to cover Chapter 11, which contains material on Markov chains, some knowledge of matrix theory is necessary. The text can also be used in a discrete probability course. For use in a discrete probability course, students should have taken one term of calculus as a prerequisite. All of the computer programs that are used in the text have been written in each of the languages TrueBASIC, Maple, and Mathematica.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:161610046X
ISBN13:9781616100469
Release Date:September 2009
Publisher:Orange Grove Texts Plus
Length:518 Pages
Weight:2.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.3" x 10.9"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Brilliant book on probability theory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is a wonderful book on probability theory. I first used it at Dartmouth in an intro course 12 years ago, and I still find it illuminating. The level is at once highly rigorous and extremely readable & engaging. I believe anyone can read this book (a smattering of first-year calculus would help to understand the sections on continuous probability distributions). The paradoxes in Chp 4 are memorable, as is the medical question on false positives / false negatives, which most med students failed. With a chapter on random walks, this is also the perfect introduction for anyone in physics / finance seeking to study stochastic calculus. Truly, there's nothing that is (a) more clearly written (b) more enjoyable to read (if you like math)
Available under the GNU General Public License
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book is freely available under the GNU General Public License, in PDF format. The GPL allows free usage to anyone, and free modification and redistribution with the restriction that your changes have to remain free under the same license. This is the same license Linux and much open source software is released under. Try a web search for the authors/title. For a course, you might want to purchase the physical copy anyway. I am starting on the book now, so ignore my rating of the book itself - I had to include a rating to post.
good
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
covers fundamentals well, easy to read, good variety of problems, historic sections are interesting
Finally a readable math book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A good variety of problems, easy, medium, and hard. I was able to read through the chapters and understand the mathematics. The computer programs truly complement the sections.
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