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Probability & statistics for quants

The complete theory course — probability and statistics built from first principles, with intuition as the goal: definitions, theorems with proofs or proof sketches, worked examples, simulation code, and prep questions that test whether each idea actually landed. Separate from the applied tutorial series; this is the mathematical bedrock underneath it.

Quantitative work leans on the same core repeatedly: counting outcomes cleanly, conditioning without fumbling Bayes, recognising a distribution from its behaviour, bounding a tail, taking an expectation the fast way ( and its friends), setting up a martingale, and saying — precisely — what a p-value is and is not. Each chapter builds the theory first, makes it visual and simulable, then closes with practice problems that probe that exact spot.

How to use this series

Learning the subject:work Parts I–IV in order (probability is cumulative — Part II especially is where the intuition gets built), then treat Parts V–VI as a menu. Every chapter ends with a Practice problems section — attempt those cold before reading the solutions; the struggle is where the understanding forms. As a reference: each chapter is self-contained with cross-links, and the search bar (⌘K) indexes every topic.

Part I — Probability foundations#

Part II — Probabilistic intuition#

Part III — Core theorems#

Part IV — Stochastic processes#

Part V — Statistical inference#

Part VI — Statistics in practice#