Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter III, Fluctuations In Coin Tossing And Random Walks, p. 67.
“The results concerning fluctuations in coin tossing show the widely held beliefs about the law of large numbers are fallacious. They were so amazing and so at variance with common intuition that even sophisticated colleagues doubted that coins actually misbehave as theory predicts.”
Note on the Use of this Book, p. xi-xii.
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Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter X, Law Of large Numbers, p. 250.
Part One, Entropy, Toy Room, p. 46
Fortune's Formula (2005)
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter VI, The Binomial And The Poisson Distributions, p. 152-153.
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter XIII, Recurrent Events. Renewal Theory. p. 314.

The causes of human variability. Eugenics Review 10, 213-220, 1918.
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“So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser’s coins!”
Broken Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!

Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2(c), pg. 145.
(Buch I) (1867)
“Loving and hating were so close, two sides of a coin whose name was Need.”
Source: The Rainbow Abyss (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 153)