Lady Luck—the Theory of Probability

Abstract

W. Weaver London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. 1964 Pp. 392. Price 21s. The author is a former professor of mathematics who during the second world war, like so many other mathematicians, had experience of tackling problems to which statistical techniques had to be applied. This experience, he writes, deeply reinforced a conviction I had always had—that the type of thinking about problems which one learns in probability theory is more than interesting, is more than fun (although I count that very valuable); it is of the highest importance.