Gian-Carlo Rota Quote

Books on paradoxes in statistics are similar to mystery books. They have a faithful readership, and they follow a rigorous sequence in their presentation, like Greek tragedies.


Indiscrete Thoughts, Chapter XX (p. 224), Birkhäuser. 1997


Books on paradoxes in statistics are similar to mystery books. They have a faithful readership, and they follow a rigorous sequence in their...

Books on paradoxes in statistics are similar to mystery books. They have a faithful readership, and they follow a rigorous sequence in their...

Books on paradoxes in statistics are similar to mystery books. They have a faithful readership, and they follow a rigorous sequence in their...

Books on paradoxes in statistics are similar to mystery books. They have a faithful readership, and they follow a rigorous sequence in their...