Download or read book Probability: A Very Short Introduction written by John Haigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty requires an appreciation of the way random chance works. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh provides a brief account of probability theory; explaining the philosophical approaches, discussing probability distributions, and looking its applications in science and economics.