A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. By Richard Bevan Braithwaite. (Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946.) Pp. xii + 376. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1953.) 40s.

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, martingales, concentration inequalities, branching ...