Comment by scythmic_waves
3 years ago
I second this. The fundamentals take you far, and Joe Blitzstein has fantastic material.
Slightly off topic, but how do you feel about his “story proofs”? They were the one part of his lectures that never really clicked with me, but I never talked to anyone else about it.
Readers, if you want a great into to probability co-authored by Joe Blitzstein, see https://stat110.net/.
Why can't I download the PDF?
I enjoyed them - I think it shows how you can make a (relatively) rigorous, yet intuitive, argument that does not necessarily have all of the trappings/wall decoration of traditional proofs. The art is noticing when the story is complete vs. when it is papering over an important mathematical aspect.
I took the course in person, so it might have been more understandable in that context.
Me too - particularly when the story proof was more concise than the algebraic proof, or hinted at the deeper reason as to why something must be true. I remember them better too.