{"product_id":"probability-via-expectation-peter-whittle-9780387977645","title":"Probability Via Expectation","description":"This book is a complete revision of the earlier work Probability which ap- peared in 1970. While revised so radically and incorporating so much new material as to amount to a new text, it preserves both the aim and the approach of the original. That aim was stated as the provision of a 'first text in probability, de- manding a reasonable but not extensive knowledge of mathematics, and taking the reader to what one might describe as a good intermediate level'. In doing so it attempted to break away from stereotyped applications, and consider applications of a more novel and significant character. The particular novelty of the approach was that expectation was taken as the prime concept, and the concept of expectation axiomatized rather than that of a probability measure. In the preface to the original text of 1970 (reproduced below, together with that to the Russian edition of 1982) I listed what I saw as the advantages of the approach in as unlaboured a fashion as I could. I also took the view that the text rather than the author should persuade, and left the text to speak for itself. It has, indeed, stimulated a steady interest, to the point that Springer-Verlag has now commissioned this complete reworking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Whittle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0387977643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780387977645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Peter Whittle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946571890943,"sku":"9780387977645","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_93d1c169-4d9d-4951-a94c-3596b24a1b67.jpg?v=1681513911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/probability-via-expectation-peter-whittle-9780387977645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}