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The Cambridge Dictionary of Probability and Its Applications
David Stirzaker
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Description for The Cambridge Dictionary of Probability and Its Applications
hardcover. The first dictionary of probability and its applications in English. Guides you through the concepts and vocabulary. An essential reference. Num Pages: 426 pages, 80 b/w illus. BIC Classification: GBC; KCH; PBT; PBWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 195 x 28. Weight in Grams: 986.
Probability comes of age with this, the first dictionary of probability and its applications in English, which supplies a guide to the concepts and vocabulary of this rapidly expanding field. Besides the basic theory of probability and random processes, applications covered here include financial and insurance mathematics, operations research (including queueing, reliability, and inventories), decision and game theory, optimization, time series, networks, and communication theory, as well as classic problems and paradoxes. The dictionary is reliable, stable, concise, and cohesive. Each entry provides a rigorous definition, a sketch of the context, and a reference pointing the reader to the wider ... Read more
Probability comes of age with this, the first dictionary of probability and its applications in English, which supplies a guide to the concepts and vocabulary of this rapidly expanding field. Besides the basic theory of probability and random processes, applications covered here include financial and insurance mathematics, operations research (including queueing, reliability, and inventories), decision and game theory, optimization, time series, networks, and communication theory, as well as classic problems and paradoxes. The dictionary is reliable, stable, concise, and cohesive. Each entry provides a rigorous definition, a sketch of the context, and a reference pointing the reader to the wider ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107075160
SKU
V9781107075160
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Ref
99-10
About David Stirzaker
David Stirzaker is Associate Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. His previous titles include Probability and Random Processes (with Geoffrey Grimmett, 2001) and Elementary Probability (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Reviews for The Cambridge Dictionary of Probability and Its Applications
'To construct a dictionary about such an enormous field is a daunting task, and David Stirzaker deserves high praise, first for even attempting to do so, and second for the success he has achieved. A dictionary's usefulness depends on its organisation as well as on the quality of the individual entries, and this book's structure is simple and logical: two ... Read more