This book covered most elementary topics of probability with a modern treatment. Only require a little mathematic background, analysis, multivariate calculus and a little linear algebra will be enough to go through the book. No measure theory required for understanding any detail within this book.The book features very detailed explanation and derivation of theory with application.This book is most suitable for those need a solid background of probability theory but no need for more advanced topic which will be used for PG courses.

pages would go from 234 to 345 then to 235... how am i suppose to read it?

This book is most definitely the worst math book I've ever encountered. It spends an incredible amount of time proving formulas, but then it never explains how that formula relates to probability. It's more of a math book than a probability book. Don't waste your money on this book. You will regret it.

As you have read from the previous reviewer, this book isn't a good book if you do not have any background in probability. In fact, I don't understand the examples in the book even though I understand my professor perfectly and get full marks on my homework and quizzes. The problem with the book is that it introduces new notations out of the blue and doesn't explain what those notations means. It is equivalent to changing the language to Chinese all of the sudden and expecting you to understand it. You can't understand an example if you don't know what the symbols and notations represent in words. In addition to that, it jumps from the first step to the conclusion with the explanation of "it's obvious" "obviously "clearly" and so on. You'll be quick to see that nothing is obvious. If it was, you wouldn't need the textbook.

The bad: This book is atrocious. Definitions are ambiguous and use meaningless phrases like "when order matters". The concepts are very poorly explained. And the examples, though plentiful, are either trivial or poorly explained. The problems at the end of the chapter require theorems not presented in the text. Finally, the cost of this book is incredibly high.The good: There are lots of interesting problems in the book.

quite possibly the worse book i have ever read on the subject. examples dont have anything to do with the theorems he has just introduced. and the examples are all over the place. how do you have 80 examples or more per chapter and none of the examples relate to each other? he puts the most mundane topics where some examples are like 3 page solutions. just plain horrible if you ask me. you will not learn probability from this book