Re: Christmas Reading?

[Humberto Barreto]

>Does anyone know of a book on statistics (or maths) that likewise is a
>good non-technical read?  perhaps about some statistical 'characters' or
>perhaps history of statistics.

I bet you'd like James Gleick's stuff:

Chaos: Making a New Science (1988)
Genius (a bio of Richard Feynman) (1993)
and his latest
Faster: The Accelaration of Just About Everything, which I've just started.

Happy holidays!

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