Industrial Statistics

Industrial Statistics by Freeman published by Wiley

I always like having another statistics book around. I’ve found that while there is overlap in content between the statistics texts that I have, each text explains and motivates certain concepts and ideas differently. Though this Industrial Statistics text is a little dated, I like the discussion of Chapters IV and V, “Systematic Quality Control” and “Sampling and the Risks of Producers and Buyers”, respectively. I also like it for the title. It’s something that I can show around to my (statistics) class and point out relevant, “real life”, examples of statistics in action.

Algebraic Numbers

Algebraic Numbers by Serge Lang published by Addison Wesley

I bought this book because I actually do not know too much about algebraic and analytic number theory. I figured this would be a good book to have for self-study. I looked through the chapter topics and was unfamiliar with many of them. I have to brush up on the prerequisites before I can start to go through this book. The author states that for the first five chapters, only elementary algebra is assumed knowledge at the level of Galois theory. And it has been a long time since I’ve formally touched Galois theory. So I’ll have to jog my memory first.

Martin Gardner!

My Best Mathematical And Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner published by Dover

This book … well, what can I say. Puzzles by Martin Gardner! I’ve figured out a few of them and I have a whole mess of puzzles just floating around in my head. This will be great for my train rides.

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