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This book belongs to theAdvanced Book Classics series. "Read and cited by scientists and mathematicians world-wide, Advanced Book Classics are works that continue to inform today's groundbreaking research efforts. Redesigned and newly released in paperback, these graduate level texts and monographs are now available to an even wider audience. Written by the most influential physicists of the twentieth century, these Advanced Book Classics promise to enrich and inspire a new generation of physicists."
From the Author in the Preface: "Following an observation of Disraeli, I decided to find out what I myself believed by the simple process of writing a book that would be, to me at least, somewhat more believable than what had I found. Of necessity, being application oriented, it would have a lot more philosophy than most textbooks that postulate a probability model and then present the techniques without regard to understanding when, how, and where to use the techniques, or why the particular postulates are assumed. Indeed, most mathematicians blandly assume that probability is a branch of mathematics without ever doubting this assumption. Such books tend to discourage the reader from making new applications outside the accepted areas—yet it is hard to believe that the range of applications of probability has been anywhere near exhausted. It seems to me that the philosophy of probability is not a topic to be avoided in a first course, but rather, in view of the dangers of the misapplication of the theory (which are many), it is an essential part."
