Suggest good sites/books on probability
Recommendations from 25 sampled comments out of 25 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
23 books
NY_Entrepreneur · Jul 6, 2011
The main text for 'analysis' is just: Walter Rudin, 'Principles of Mathematical Analysis', McGraw-Hill, New York.
bhickey · Jul 3, 2011
I strongly recommend Elements of Statistical Learning. The text is eye-opening.
NY_Entrepreneur · Jul 6, 2011
Walter Rudin, 'Real and Complex Analysis', ISBN 07-054232-5, McGraw-Hill, New York.
NY_Entrepreneur · Jul 6, 2011
Sufficient is I. N. Herstein, 'Topics in Algebra', Blaisdell, New York, 1964.
localhost3000 · Jul 3, 2011
Fooled by randomness would be much better if you want to learn something about probability via a popular author like Taleb, IMO
NY_Entrepreneur · Jul 6, 2011
Paul R. Halmos, 'Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, Second Edition', D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1958.
namank · Jul 3, 2011
Introduction to probability, D. P. Bertsekas and J. N. Tsitsiklis, Athena Scientific , 2002. ISBN 1-886529-40-X. This is an excellent book for further reading and understanding some of the material.
NY_Entrepreneur · Jul 6, 2011
Jacques Neveu, 'Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability', Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1965.