Randomness Ruling Our Lives

Late to it, but completing: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.  Always looking for books that do a good job of providing explanations of arcane subjects like probability and statistics. This book does that.  I particularly liked the sections on Bayes Theorem, Pascal's Triangle and the underlying meaning of randomness.  The author tells a good story with real world examples.  He also frequently covers the history of each topic in some depth, which may or may not be to the taste of some.  I enjoyed it all, well done.   The Amazon description writes:

  " ... With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.... "