I just finsihed "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" by Jordan Ellenberg. It's an amazing book. Now I'm looking for a book to read next. I was thinking about "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't" by Nate Silver. Any better suggestions?
Based on the books mentioned in your post, I assume you are looking for light readings on statistics and probability. You might enjoy following books.<p>* Darrell Huff, Irving Geis How to Lie With Statistics<p>* Ian Ayres Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart<p>* David Salsburg The Lady Tasting Tea How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century<p>* Emanuel Deman, Models Behaving Badly<p>* Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson The Misbehavior of Markets A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence<p>* Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
"How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. It's a pretty old book (1954). But it talks about the most common uses of statistics in everyday life (marketing reasearch and infographics showing extrapolating trends inaccurately) and how the results are often gathered carelessly. Here's a short review by Bill Gates: <a href="http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/How-to-Lie-with-Statistics" rel="nofollow">http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/How-to-Lie-with-Statistics</a>
Get "Introduction to Probability" by Dmitri Bertsekas. The solutions are available on the web also, so it makes it easy to work through the problems until you get it.<p>There's other good books out there, but I still keep the Bertsekas book on my desk, along with Kutner's Applied Linear Regression Models.
The Nate Silver book is outstanding. Read it. I would then think about one of Nassim Taleb's books, either "The Black Swan" or "Antifragile".
I would like to add 'Introduction of Probability' by Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang. I actually have not used the textbook yet but I have taken Prof. Blitzstein's Harvard Stat 110 and it has been the best of all online courses I have taken for statistics. I have also heard very good things about the book. Worth checking out.<p>The problem sets for the course are available free online. So you can have a look at them to decide.