![]() ![]() Warren Weaver wrote Lady Luck back in the 1960s with the hope that this book would be read by the layman. Weaver's references to distinctively late 50s early 60s phenomenon provide an entertaining look at the thoughts of the time.Īs a famous song goes, Luck be a Lady tonight. Weaver's work, far from being in any sense "slow," deals with how we are to take into account this very basic ideas that form the starting point to this particular area of the mathematical sciences. ![]() A concept such as "independent random variable" which a mediocre statistics textbook may quickly skip is a surprisingly philosophically complicated idea, and has troubled academicians, let alone lay people. What is most important about the work is that it provides the reader an extremely entertaining and well written framework for thinking about questions of probability. Weaver is very careful about presenting his arguments so that they may have maximum intuitive appeal, while at the same time refusing to compromise the mathematical rigor that is necessary to construct any serious theory of rudimentary probability. ![]() ![]() Weaver's "Lady Luck" lies in its sheer readability. ![]()
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