Statistique mathématique

THIS is a very readable account of the applications of the theory of probability to statistics. A knowledge of the calculus is assumed. In England the treatment of probability except for specialists has suffered from an excess of amusing but useless developments, and as a reaction against this the subject has lately been neglected. Now that the calculus is learnt at a much earlier stage than was formerly customary, it is possible that an elementary course might be devised which would have its value as leading up to the kind of work dealt with in this volume. Apart from the question of educational value, a knowledge of the elements of probability might serve as a corrective against the extraordinary views held by the man in the street about chance, and the mathematician should not ignore a movement towards the re-introduction of the subject, however unwilling he may be to add to his syllabus.Statistique mathématique.Prof.G.DarmoisPar. (Encyclopédie scientifique: Bibliothèque de mathématiques appliquées.) Pp. xxiv + 363. (Paris: Gaston Doin et Cie, 1928.) 32 francs.