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Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Brian Skyrms, Persi Diaconis

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5.0

A really lovely and engaging short review of philosophical and mathematical issues surrounding probability. It covers a lot of ground, but so nicely ties things together that I found myself gripped by the last few chapters, as if it were a particularly compelling novel. Most of it was quite accessable, assuming just basic familiarity with probability theory, but can get a little tricky in places (e.g. it gets pretty into the weeds with exchangeability, and I puzzled over the explanation of Martin-Lof randomness for quite a while)
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