New Book, Probability: A Lively Introduction by Henk Tijms

[presto]

Hello everybody, my new book has just come out

Paperback: 535 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN 978-1-108-40784-7

The book covers all of the standard material in introductory probability, but it deals also with many other topics that are usually not found in other books- such as Kelly betting, success runs, entropy and probability, Poissonization method, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation (and challenging probability puzzles).

More details (table of contents, excerpt) in:

Probability: A Lively Introduction : Henk Tijms

 

[bigbadwolf]

How different is this from the 3rd edition of your earlier book, "Understanding Probability"?

 

[IntoDarkness]

no meaningful advantage over ross's book...

 

[bigbadwolf]

Tijm's book is a first-rate introduction to probability. Ross isn't.

 

[presto]

BigBadWolf, you ask a fair question. Thanks.

The introductory probability text book has grown out of the 300 pages of Part II of my earlier book Understanding Probability. The new book , however, contains a lot of extra material, including many more examples and problems, both easy ones and more challenging ones. The students are the focal point, and much effort has been taken to make the book truly readable for them. No inimitable ingenious arguments and detours as for example in Ross' book. An important difference from other introductory probability books is the section of detailed solutions to all (375) odd-numbered problems, with the goal of actively engaging the student in the learning process. Also, the book is multi-functional and can also be used for both a course on stochastic processes and a course on simulation. It has two chapters on discrete-time and continuous-Markov chains with a variety of applications , an extensive section on renewal processes, and it pays quite some attention to the interface of probability and Monte Carlo simulation.