I stumbled across this slim volume by chance in the bookshop and it intrigued me. It’s a basic (very basic) introductory guide to probability. The trouble is that it’s just too small and light. While the author’s not afraid to include some equations in the text, he embarks on a chapter on, say the normal distribution, and three pages later it’s over. There’s no mention of the other distributions that also exist which might lead the unwitting reader to believe everything’s distributed normally.
In fact the book finishes after around 130, small, pages. And is almost padded out with an afterthought by a co-author whereby we’re run through several real world examples and the probabilities are explained some more.
I suppose I just wanted more out of this. We’re all using probabilities every day and some explanation about how lotery systems work or what your chances are in casinos are to be welcomed. (There is some coverage of roulette within this book).
So maybe this acts as a primer, but you’re definitely left wanting more.