On a quarantined if sunny Sunday morning, I read this 2016 book that CRC Press had sent to me quite awhile ago for review. Before moving to serious matters, let me provide my customary evaluation of the cover. I have trouble getting the point of the "face on Mars" being adopted as the cover of a book about probability theory (rather than a book about, say, pareidolia). Th ere is a brief paragraph (p. 37) on post-facto probability calculations, stating how meaningless (indeed!) is the question of the probability of this shadow appearing on a Viking Orbiter picture by "chance," but this is so marginal that I would have preferred to see any other fi gure from the book.
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