Introduction to Probablity

By Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821807498
• ISBN13: 9780821807491
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society(RI)
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant book on probability theory

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

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

covers fundamentals well, easy to read, good variety of problems, historic sections are interesting

Finally a readable math book!

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.