Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability through self study?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability throug... by smeyer on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:42AM (#10575020)

Joe Blitzstein is usually pretty communicative (I see him answering a lot of questions on Quora and he had a reputation for being pretty approachable at Harvard.) If you like their book, maybe you should reach out and see if either of them have books they'd recommend for your case?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability throug... by akg_67 on Monday November 16, 2015 @08:17PM (#10578571)

It surprises me how few people reach out directly to authors or other "known" people for recommendation, suggestion and questions. If you like someone's work, then you are more likely to like his/her suggestions too. Some may not respond but some may do and might become quite valuable resource.

A few years ago, I reached out to an author of financial book while reading his book with a few questions and suggestions for next book to pick up after his book to build up my knowledge further. We had interesting email conversations about the different topics. Even now time to time I reach out to him with questions.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability throug... by an0nym1ty on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:12PM (#10576825)

Based on the presence of a bookshelf on his webpage [0], he seems to be a fan of literature. I've been looking for a text on abstract algebra and now I think I've got one!

Seems like a question that he would welcome.

[0] http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~blitz/Site/Books.html

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability throug... by sharmi on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:04PM (#10582839)

Thank you for your suggestion. I think this is the best course of action.

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