Reasoning about luck

By Vinay Ambegaokar

Subjects: Probability measures, Physics, Mathematical physics, Science, Probabilities, Statistical physics

Description: "Praised by the American Journal of Physics as "an outstanding and ambitious textbook for nonscience majors," this book introduces the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics. Only some familiarity with basic algebra is needed to understand explanations of many basic concepts"--