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irrationals [guest post/book review]
When I received The irrationals: A story of the numbers you can’t count on by Julian Havil for reviewing for CHANCE, Pierre Alquier happened to be in my office at CREST and I proposed him to write the...
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the painted man
Another of those fantasy books I bought on the spur of the moment, without prior information, and that I ended liking very much! Indeed, when I was in the UK in April, I bought a few books for my son...
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Il cimitero di Praga
In the plane back from Kyoto, I did read most of Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery, as my computer was down and as I had by then reviewed both PhD theses I had taken with me… I am always impressed by...
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summer reads (#1)
I only packed four books in my suitcase when I left Paris in early July, for lack of space for more. They were Gene Wolfe’s An Evil Guest, Camilla Lackberg’s Hidden Child, Richard Ford’s A Piece of my...
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summer reads (#2)
As mentioned in a previous blog, I only packed four books in my suitcase in early July. Among those, Richard Ford’s A Piece of my Heart, and Niccolo Ammaniti’s La Fête du Siècle (Che la festa cominci)....
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back from down under
After a sunny weekend to unpack and unwind, I am now back to my normal schedule, on my way to Paris-Dauphine for an R (second-chance) exam. Except for confusing my turn signal for my wiper, thanks to...
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The Desert Spear
“‘Ent here to deliver anyone that would put a girl out in the night!’, he roared.” The Desert Spear, p. 497 As indicated in the earlier post about Peter Brett’s The Painted Man/The Warded Man, I very...
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A Quiet Belief in Angels [not a self-promotion]
Interesting, most interesting! As I was thinking about writing a post on this book, Andrew pointed out the author, R.J. Ellory, had been caught red-handed, writing a highly positive review on his own...
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CHANCE 25(3) out
I have just received an email about CHANCE 25(3) being out, at least on-line, with my reviews of Efron’s Large scale inference Cox and Donnelly’s Principles of Applied Statistics Belfiglio’s opus...
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books for review (in CHANCE)
Among the books I received for review in CHANCE, here are some neither I nor my “usual suspects” had enough time or interest in to review: R Graphics (second edition) by Paul Murrell Biostatistics: A...
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Shadow Chaser
This is the second volume of the series, Shadow Chaser, following Shadow Prowler I reviewed a while ago. Once again, a rather pleasant, quick read. When I started Shadow Chaser, a few days ago, I...
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R for dummies
Just saw this nice review of R for dummies. And thought after this afternoon class that my students in the simulation course at Paris-Dauphine could clearly benefit from reading it! They in fact had a...
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Fall of Hyperion
“I have weighted the consequences of this remote… one would have to say statistically impossible… event many times. We find the risks acceptable. Should the impossible happens (…)” The Fall of...
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Théorème vivant
When I ordered this book, Théorème Vivant (Alive Theorem), by Cédric Villani, I had misgivings about it being yet another illustration of the, pardon my French!, universal “pipolisation” process that...
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the fractalist
Definitely a cool—if borderline hairy—cover…! I have not read The Fractalist, which is an auto-biography of Benoît Mandelbrot, who passed away in 2010. (The title itself is not bad either, ringing both...
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guesstimation (1+2)
I received very recently this book, Guesstimation 2.0, written by Lawrence Weinstein from Princeton University Press for review in CHANCE and decided to check the first (2008 )volume, Guesstimation,...
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lemma 7.3
As Xiao-Li Meng accepted to review—and I am quite grateful he managed to fit this review in an already overflowing deanesque schedule!— our 2004 book Monte Carlo Statistical Methods as part of a...
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paradoxes in scientific inference
This CRC Press book was sent to me for review in CHANCE: Paradoxes in Scientific Inference is written by Mark Chang, vice-president of AMAG Pharmaceuticals. The topic of scientific paradoxes is one of...
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Amazon associates links (warnin’)
As in previous years, let me warn unwary readers that the links to Amazon.com and Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to earn me a monetary gain [from 4% to 7%] if a purchase is made...
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The Necromancer Chronicles (vol. 1 & 2)
Once more, I have to thank my colleague from Paris-Dauphine for introducing to a new fantasy series. I found those two volumes by Amanda Downum in my mailbox a few weeks ago and set them aside for...
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