Probability
For the Enthusiastic Beginner
by David Morin · first published 2016
100% recommend
This book is written for high school and college students learning about probability for the first time. It will appeal to the reader who has a healthy level of enthusiasm for understanding how and why the various results of probability come about. All of the standard introductory topics in probability are covered:combinatorics, the rules of probability, Bayes’ theorem, expectation value, variance, probability density, common distributions, the law of large numbers, the central limit theorem, correlation, and regression. Calculus is not a prerequisite, although a few of the problems do involve
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…think it's possible people have different levels of intelligence. I've also experienced that I learn better through some teachers. If you're having trouble with combinatorics/algorithms, may I suggest: Probability: For the Enthusiastic Beginner by David Morin is the book that helped me get it. It's got tons of examples and I felt like I could work through them. Grokking Algorithms by me(!) is (in my biased opinion)…
on “Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?” ↗Unfortunately I can provide only few examples of such textbooks, they're quite rare. "Probability" by David Morin "Walk Through Combinatorics, A: An Introduction To Enumeration And Graph Theory" by Miklós Bóna
on “Start Doing Graph Theory” ↗I've been working through "Probability - For the Enthusiastic Beginner" by David Morin. Very affordable for a textbook, clear instructions, solutions to exercises in the book is provided.
on “Ask HN: Book which comprehensively covers probability theory?” ↗