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Written by international award-winning probabilityexpert Henk Tijms, Basic Probability:What Every Math Student Should Know presentsthe essentials of elementary probability. Thebook is primarily written for high school andcollege students learning about probabilityfor the first time. In a highly accessible way,a modern treatment of the subject is givenwith emphasis on conditional probability andBayesian probability, on striking applications ofthe Poisson distribution, and on the interfacebetween probability and computer simulation.In modern society, it is important to be able tocritically evaluate statements of a probabilisticnature presented in the media in order to makeinformed judgments. A basic knowledge ofprobability theory is indispensable to logicalthinking and statistical literacy. The bookprovides this knowledge and illustrates it withnumerous everyday situations.