This website is about the book
Probably Not
(John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2008) and related discussions. This site will be a
living
document in that it will never be finalized. It will be updated any time
something interesting comes along.
My intent in writing this book was to try and extend the
reader's appreciation of how random events affect us every day - from the
gambling casino to the bus stop, the office baseball league, a string of traffic
lights, when we should start collecting our Social Security payments and the
properties of the air we breathe.
Follow the links at the left to the Table of Contents of the
book, the Preface, and a sample section (Benford's Law). The Quidnunc page will be the most
frequently updated section in the site; I will post items of recent news,
items that I come across that I think are interesting, etc.
I invite readers to contact me (the link on the left will do
it) with comments, questions, contributions . . . whatever you have that you think is
relevant to the topic. I will respond to everyone and put some of these discussions on the Quidnunc page.
Larry Dworsky
Note: The materials excerpted from Probably Not are
Copyright 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., used here with permission. Everything
else is Copyright 2008 by Lawrence N. Dworsky.
