George Kingsley Zipf, "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort”, 1949.

George Kingsley Zipf, “Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology”, 1949 was a nonfiction science book. The “Zipf Law” is a statistical distribution discovered by George Zipf. This probability distribution is a “linear ranking” statistic that describes a wild range of stochastic phenomena.  I use it in rankings of … Continue reading George Kingsley Zipf, "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort”, 1949.