Classic problems of probability

by Gorroochurn, Prakash

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Full title :Classic problems of probability / Prakash Gorroochurn.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
Place of Publication:Hoboken, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 314 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781118063255, 1118063252
oclc:ocn757478610
LC Classification:QA273.A4
Dewey Decimal:519.2

Cardano and games of chance (1564) -- Galileo and the discovery concerning dice (1620) -- The Chevalier de Méré problem I: the problem of dice (1654) -- The Chevalier de Méré problem II: the problem of points (1654) -- Huygens and the gambler's ruin (1657) -- The Pepys-Newton connection (1693) -- Rencontres with Montmort (1708) -- Jacob Bernoulli and his golden theorem (1713) -- De Moivre's problem (1730) -- De Moivre, Gauss, and the normal curve (1730, 1809) -- Daniel Bernoulli and the St. Petersburg problem (1738) -- d'Alembert and the "Croix ou Pile" article (1754) -- d'Alembert and the gambler's fallacy (1761) -- Bayes, Laplace, and philosophies of probability (1764, 1774) -- Leibniz's error (1768) -- The buffon needle problem (1777) -- Bertrand's ballot problem (1887) -- Bertrand's strange three boxes (1889) -- Bertrand's chords (1889) -- Three coins and the puzzle from Galton (1894) -- Lewis Carroll's pillow problem No. 72 (1894) -- Borel and a different kind of normality (1909) -- Borel's paradox and Kolmogorov's axioms (1909, 1933) -- Of Bored, Monkey's, and the new creationism (1913) -- Kraitchik's neckties and Newcomb's problem (1930, 1960) -- Fisher and the lady tasting…