> It's pretty amazing how non-intuitive probability can be.

I've always found probability (and combinatorics, topology, and some
parts of statistics, and -after some time - matrix stuff) the most
understandeable parts of maths. It's analysis, differential stuff,
fourier etc. that I could not grasp. 

For a lot of people grasping and using seem to be completely different
things. My wife did things with algebra in her university study that I
could only look upon in awe. But she did not realy understand it, she
just used it. She can hardly recall anything of it now. I on the other
hand could do much much less with maths than she could, but I can still
do most of it today, not because I ever used it but because I realy
understood it.

Wouter van Ooijen

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