A book that appeared previously on Hackernews is Lev Tarasov's "The world is built on probability". This is not striclty a textbook, but it is translated in English in a way that preserves a lot of the feel of the original: https://archive.org/details/TheWorldIsBuiltOnProbability For examples…
Interesting title, and I will have to dip into the book when I have some spare time, but statements like "the world is built on probability" always sound strange to me. Is it that chance and randomness are fundamental aspects of our world, or is it that our knowledge of the world is inherently limited, and the laws of probability that people…
之前在 Hacker News 上出现过的一本书是列夫·塔拉索夫（Lev Tarasov）的《世界建立在概率之上》。严格来说这并不算是一本教科书，但它的英译本很大程度上保留了原著的神韵：https://archive.org/details/TheWorldIsBuiltOnProbability 例如……
A book that appeared previously on Hackernews is Lev Tarasov's "The world is built on probability". This is not striclty a textbook, but it is translated in English in a way that preserves a lot of the feel of the original: https://archive.org/details/TheWorldIsBuiltOnProbability For examples…
我听过不少人夸列夫·塔拉索夫的《世界建立在概率之上》，但我自己还没深入读过，所以没法给出我自己的评价
I've heard good things about Lev Tarasov's "The World is Built on Probability", but haven't dived into it so can't offer my own opinion
书名很有意思，等我有了空闲时间一定得翻翻看，但像“世界建立在概率之上”这种说法听起来总让我觉得很怪。到底是偶然与随机性本身就是我们这个世界的根本属性，还是说仅仅因为我们对世界的认知本质上是有限的，从而人们所谓的概率法则……
Interesting title, and I will have to dip into the book when I have some spare time, but statements like "the world is built on probability" always sound strange to me. Is it that chance and randomness are fundamental aspects of our world, or is it that our knowledge of the world is inherently limited, and the laws of probability that people…