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Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922-1972) Lived All His Life In The Same House In The Small Taranaki Town Of Hawera, And Yet Created A Bizarre And Brilliantly Funny Fictional World Which Constitutes One Of The Most Distinctive Contributions To New Zealand Fiction. However, His Originality And His Isolation From A Sustaining Literary Community Meant That His Work Wasvirtually Ignored During His Lifetime. His First Two Novels, Though Well Received In Australia, Sank Almost Without Trace In New Zealand, And Morrieson Was Unable To Find A Publisher For His Two Later Noivels, Both Of Which Were Published Posthumously.... Simpson Provides An Illuminating Biographical Sketch, And Discusses Each Of The Novels In Detail To Demonstrate The Compelling Mixture Of Comedy, Pathos, Suspense And Violence Of Which Morrieson Was Master.--back Cover. Preface -- Notation -- I. The Counterexamples -- Ii. The Counterexamples With Proofs -- 1. The Real Line -- 2. Real-valued Functions -- 3. Differentiation -- 4. Measures -- 5. Integration -- 6. Product Spaces -- 7. Basic Probability -- 8. Conditioning -- 9. Convergence In Probability Theory -- 10. Applications Of Probability -- Index. Peter Simpson. Bibliography: P. 64.