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Summary: What is probability that this is the best book????????
Review: I don't really like this book because it starts out good and goes very fast in the middle of the chapters and also it has advance questions which is not for the beginers. This subject is very hard it should atleast have a solutions manual accompanying this book.
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Summary: "An Excellent Book"
Review: Saeed Ghahramani does a fine job with this text. This is a great text for those seeking a guided introduction to the fundamental elements of probability. I am a undergraduate mathematics major & find the material in this text pleasing to read and full of examples that aide in the learning process. This text reminds me of the Springer series of mathematics texts (with it's page style, fonts, & chapters). But one peace of advice, do not read through this book quickly. Take your time and do as many examples as possible (the odd numbered review questions are answered in the back so you may check your work).
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Summary: "An Excellent Book"
Review: Saeed Ghahramani does a fine job with this text. This is a great text for those seeking a guided introduction to the fundamental elements of probability. I am a undergraduate mathematics major & find the material in this text pleasing to read and full of examples that aide in the learning process. This text reminds me of the Springer series of mathematics texts (with it's page style, fonts, & chapters). But one peace of advice, do not read through this book quickly. Take your time and do as many examples as possible (the odd numbered review questions are answered in the back so you may check your work).
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Summary: Why do we care about probability. It never works............
Review: This blue book "Fundementals of Probability" is not very fundemental, this is one of the worse math text books I have ever seen. All probability books have same material but different author, This books dose not explain everything in detail and expect the beginers to know every single probability questions in advance, and there are lot of typo errors......
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Summary: VERY POOR QUALITY
Review: This is a pathetic book. You can study as hard as you like, but you will not be able to solve the problems at the end of each section. Why? Because those problems are totally unrelated to what's explained in the chapter. I know most people say this book is good -- its because they're either paid by the publisher to praise this book or they're phd or graduate students. And please don't think I'm making a bad review because I'm a weak student. I have an excellent background in calculus and other pre-requisits for this course. I have aced most of my math courses at my university, and never have I gotten anything less than B in any math course I took. I have done over 26 credits in math for my BS in EE -- calculus, linear algebra, Differential Equations, etc and I got A in 16 and B in 10 of those credits. However when I took this course, the book is so extremely poor that I got 60 in the first test. And thereafter the professor said exams will be open book and open notes because the material is simply too poor. Only students having a very strong background in probability would understand this. For a beginner in probability, this book sucks big time.
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Summary: Don't buy another!
Review: This is an excellent reference book for anyone taking a graduate level Math Stat class. I have read Hoag & Craig, Cassella, Mood Graybill & Boes, and Mukhopadhyay, and this book is clearly the easiest to read from simple distributions to moment generating functions, to transformations, etc.After you read this, you are going to wish the author had part II covering inferential methods.
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Summary: Don't buy another!
Review: This is an excellent reference book for anyone taking a graduate level Math Stat class. I have read Hoag & Craig, Cassella, Mood Graybill & Boes, and Mukhopadhyay, and this book is clearly the easiest to read from simple distributions to moment generating functions, to transformations, etc. After you read this, you are going to wish the author had part II covering inferential methods.
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Summary: What is probability that this is the best book????????
Review: This text starts from the axioms of probability and builds up. Beautifully done, the problems are interesting, and the approach is exciting.
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Summary: Beautiful Bottom up Approach to Probability
Review: This text starts from the axioms of probability and builds up. Beautifully done, the problems are interesting, and the approach is exciting.
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Summary: Amazing Piece of Work!
Review: Upon opening this book, I questioned its content. I said to myself blissfully "Is this going to be a good book about probability?" After reading some of these reviews I questioned this books style. After all, Saeed Ghahramani isn't one of the best writers on mathematics out there. This book however, is amazing. It is a piece of art. With every page, I am given a new challenging problem. Each problem is for the most advanced mind who is willing to go beyond their capabilities. Every example is great in itself, and expands the readers mind as it did to me. Let's put it this way. I was a C+ statistics student my Freshman year after the first semester. After reading this book, and completing each problem to the best of my ability, my second semester grade was an A+ I completed the course right at the top of the math class due to this wonderful book. How good is this book? It is one of the best books of our history about probability. ====================================================== (Pros:) ~"Fundamentals of Probability" is a great book. Not only does it give you fun and challenging problems, but it gives you problems which you can relate to in your everyday lives. It gives you material which will stick with you for the rest of your life. It is that good. ~Each problem is right to the point, not too long, not too short. Every problem is just as long as it needs to be making it so great. ~The authors style is nothing short of genious. Sure, it is a little straight forward, but what would you expect buying such a great piece of work. By purchasing this, you have to have some notion of probability. You can't expect to pick the book up (never learning anything about probability) and loving it. You have to have some background. ~On top of it's great content, great style, and great time notion, Fundamentals of Probability has an outstanding cover. It is really fascinating actually. Think about it, probability is a very complicated thing. The book is like lighting, that's how beautiful and shocking it is. ===================================================== (Cons:) ~As stated in the other reviews, it absolutely needs an answer booklet. I had no way of coming to the conclusion that I was right or wrong on the problems, I just assumed I was right most of the time. It doesn't take much away from the book though. ===================================================== Saeed Ghahramani might not be the most well known author, but this should win him an award. He has written the most enjoyable math book I have ever read (Mind you, I don't like to read Math books at all.) I will definately read this book again, and keep it in my collection forever. What is the probability that lighting will hit you in the head? Very low of course! What is the probability that you will not enjoy this ingenious piece of work? Refer to the above statement.
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