Probability theory and combinatorial optimization

✍ Scribed by J. Michael Steele

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 170
• Series: CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics 69
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

My special field is neither statistics nor math. My reading this book was for research purpose. I enjoyed reading it, though it contains a few of "printing" mistakes.

The chapter 6 is somehow hard-to-find. I believe Talagrand's isoperimetric theory has wide range of applications. But it is not easy to read his original article (which, besides, is more than 100-page long). The chapter gives a very informative introduction to the theory.