The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers

Richard W. Hamming9780201510584, 0-201-51058-8, 9780201406863

Every field of knowledge has its subject matter and its methods, along with a style for handling them. The field of Probability has a great deal of Art component in it – not only is the subject matter rather different from that of other fields, but at present the techniques are not well organized into systematic methods.