Monday, December 30, 2024

David Hand's "The Improbability Principle"

David Hand's "The Improbability Principle" is one of the few books on probability that is both fascinating and memorable. It is also one of the few books where I took advantage of the Kindle Book ability to record my fingertip selections of notable sentences and create a single file of them.  The file can be downloaded and used in some quite helpful ways. I am not sure that the file I made was done very well but I did paste it on the web page.  https://sites.google.com/view/kirbyvariety1/improbability-principle-by-david-hand


I remember the woman who came irritatingly close to winning the state lotteries of two states, the man who was haunted by lightning strikes in life and even after his burial and the principle that improbable events happen all the time.


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