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Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by bob_theslob646 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:16PM (#34449194)
These are great. Thanks for sharing.

Do you happen to have any on probability or statistics and or both?

Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by nextos on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:57AM (#34449720)
Hubbard & Hubbard, which I referred to in my previous comment, discusses the basics of probability up to the Central Limit Theorem and a bit of Monte Carlo methods. Probability and statistics are really broad. What areas are you interested in?

If you are trying to do inference on large datasets, I think Andrew Gelman's books are superb and will teach you invaluable skills using multi-level Stan models, i.e. generative models and Bayesian inference.

If you want to study basic probability theory and stochastic processes, I really like Elementary Probability Theory by Chung. His more advanced book is really famous, but has a measure-theoretic approach and that's not very practical unless you are interested in developing theories a bit further.

Taleb is really fond of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes by Papoulis. But I find the typesetting in later editions to be really disorganized and confusing. Take a look. It's a good alternative to the first Chung book.

Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by oogway8020 on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:50PM (#34458800)
There is a large number of html format books on bookdown.org, mostly related to Data Science and R, lots of Bayesian too. There are some more theoretical math books there, one of which I found to be very well written: Theory of Distributions by Peter K. Dunn