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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
Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
A First Course in Probability
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Richelle E. Goodrich
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

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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