Books on R are tricky to read especially when the sheer amount of things that R can do is mind-boggling. So, there are books that range from very specialized to very generic and there is no choice but to refer this gigantic range of collection based on one’s needs. The flip side to this vast amount of stuff is, “it is likely that a first timer would fail to see the forest for the trees”.

It has started raining in Mumbai and the pleasant climate after three months of scorching heat, enlivens the spirit. Will attempt to write a few words about this book. Since I have been staying alone for the past few years in Mumbai, I have gone back to “Sitar” which I could not practice in NY for a couple of reasons: Firstly, I missed the space needed for practicing any instrument.

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say – Italo Calvino. These words definitely apply to Feller’s books. Both the volumes by Feller on probability can be considered as classics. The first book deal with the discrete variables while second is far advanced as it deals with measure theory and continuous variables. Markov processes are one of the main sources for Martingales and I had to go back to Feller to work on Markov Processes and managed to go over the entire book instead of only looking up stuff on Markov Processes.

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