Basic Probability Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Luckily I bought this book based on a previous review and i can say that this is the best book (life savior) "for engineers" trying to learn Probability concepts.It does not cover measure theory (touches lightly at some places) but approaches continous probability from Riemann integral approach - so this is a basic probability book.I have been out of school for over 10 years and this puts me right at home. I have tried several other books and none came close to this one. Mathematicians will probably have a different opinion.The book has worked out examples and solutions at the end. Primary aim of the author is for the reader to understand the concepts.I am going to buy all other topics by the author whether I need them right away or not.I just like to support good authors, which are so rare :). By the way this book is available for free download from uiuc website i think, if you want to evaluate.

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I love the price of the text. I used this for a senior-level probability course. Although the preface says all you need is calculus, you really need some experience with proof writing to truly "get" this text. I believe it is better suited for early grad students or mathematicians looking to get into a new field. I also want to complain about the problems in the text. Frequently the techniques needed to complete the problems at the end of the chapter are not discussed in the previous section. This text was very hard for my undergraduate class to use. We had to supplement heavily with other texts. Also the notation is not consistent with other popular probability texts, which made this even more difficult to use with undergraduates.

We tried to use this book for our mini-course we're running on probability for my colleagues in the lab. We need this stuff for data analysis in a biology lab, where the statistical methods get extremely complex. However, we had to abandon it by chapter two and find another book. There is some great material and exercises. And the author tries to bring things down to earth with long bits of motivation. But we found the long sojourns were just adding confusion and not helping. We found the book tried too hard to be rigorous with the whole issue of non-measurable sets and sigma-algebras, but it was just laid out in a far too convoluted and confusing manner that just frustrated the students. I would chalk this up to the nature of the subject except that I was able to distill the material into a much more palatable presentation for each section. I was able to get to the point and bullet-point out a clear road map to get their heads around the material, and without doing that they were completely lost. And these are smart people with higher degrees, masters and PhDs and they have all the calculus background necessary, we even spent a year reviewing calculus with all the proofs, just before reading this book. We are now going to use Harold Larson's book on probability instead, which side-steps the whole sigma-algebra thing altogether.

the book is not very basic, in that it is not veryler, but confusing o the average read. I found it vey difficult to understand and had to sad it several times before unerstanind the basic message. terrible book. I am probably going to trash this. I t is a one in on chance.

The BEST option for learning basic probability. It has everything you may need for a first course and the style of Ash is one of my prefered ones. Really good buy.

This is a great book, thin enough and hence not too intimidating. It covers some basic theory, and very readable.

OK

Abusing Cambridge University press books. Over priced.

Excelente libro, como texto para un primer curso formal es muy recomendable. Un texto que se puede seguir por un estudiante de matemáticas o física.

good

You can read the book as a primer or to rehearse what You thought You knew from earlier times. If You like mathematics as I do as a hobby it's a fine way into the theme.

This is an old text-book strong on mathematical description but weak on explanation. Of the three books that I bought to try and get a good understanding of statistics this was by far the weakest. I already had "Facts from Figures' which shows its age but is the best introduction that I have found so far