Dear Readers,

Our own Clément Canonne has written a beautiful survey which is now available in FnT book format from now publishers. This appears to be a very promising read — especially for the Distribution Testers among you. Today’s post is a mere advertisement for this beautiful survey/book which is clearly the result of a dedicated pursuit.

Let me now dig into this survey a teeny tiny bit. One among the many cool features of this survey is that it uses one central example (testing goodness-of-fit) to give a unified treatment to the diverse tools and techniques used in distribution testing. Another plus for me is the historical notes section that accompanies every chapter. In particular, I really liked jumping into the informative history section at the end of Chapter 2 which has an almost story like feel to it. If the above points do not catch your fancy, then please try opening the survey. You will be hardpressed to find a book that is typeset in such an aesthetically pleasing way with colored fonts to emphasize various parameters in several intricate proofs. Happy Reading!