Problems and Snapshots from the World of Probability

We, the authors of this book, are three ardent devotees of chance, or some­ what more precisely, of discrete probability. When we were collecting the material, we felt that one special pleasure of the field lay in its evocation of an earlier age: many of our ''probabilistic forefathers'' were dexterous solvers of discrete problems. We hope that this pleasure will be transmitted to the readers. The...