Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation (originally published with Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986) Luc Devroye School of Computer Science McGill University Preface to the Web Edition When I wrote this book in 1986, I had to argue long and hard with Springer Verlag to publish it. They printed a small number of copies, and never bothered with a second printing, even though, surprisingly, there seemed