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Softcovers. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1956. First edition. 98pp. John Edmund Kerrich (1903-1985) was a mathematician noted for a series of experiments in probability. He was appointed lecturer in mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1929, and senior lecturer six years later. In April 1940, while visiting in-laws in Copenhagen, Kerrich was caught up in the Nazi invasion and interned in Hald Ege, Viborg, Midtjylland. While there he conducted simple experiments using coins and ping-pong balls to demonstrate the empirical validity of a number of fundamental laws of probability. On his release after the end of the Second World War, Kerrich published an account of his experiments in this short book. It was originally published in Denmark, and later reprinted by the University of Witwatersrand Press. The book is bound in the original blue card covers with black titling on the spine and front cover. The book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling on the covers. There is browning along the top and spine edges of the covers and a name has been written on the top corner of the front cover. The front and bottom edges of the covers overlap the text block and have some nicks and creasing and the top corners are bumped. The contents are secure and clean with bumping to the top corner of the pages. There is no inscription within the book.