George Woodbury (1902–1973)

Highly personal, fascinating account of restructuring ancient water-mill. Woodbury manages to do a first-person narrative that brings readers into several pivotal years of his life with great details (and great good humor). The men who helped him, his loving wife, and what becomes of them after the basic project constitute a splendid book.

Many statistics texts lack well-defined connections among materials presented, as if the different topics were disjointed. In this new text, George Woodbury successfully illustrates the natural connections between probability and inferential statistics.