Classic Problems of Probability

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Cardano and games of chance (1564) -- Galileo and a discovery concerning dice (1620) -- The Chevalier de Méré problem I : the problem of dice (1654) -- The Chevalier de Méré II : the problem of points (1654) -- Huygens and the gambler's ruin (1657) -- The Pepys-Newton connection (1693) -- Recontres 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 pr…

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Full title :Classic Problems of Probability / Prakash Gorroochurn

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Cardano and games of chance (1564) -- Galileo and a discovery concerning dice (1620) -- The Chevalier de Méré problem I : the problem of dice (1654) -- The Chevalier de Méré II : the problem of points (1654) -- Huygens and the gambler's ruin (1657) -- The Pepys-Newton connection (1693) -- Recontres 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 a 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 Borel, monkeys, and the new creationism (1913) -- Kraitchik's neckties and Newcomb's problem (1930, 1960) -- Fisher and the lady tasting tea (1935) -- Benford and the peculiar behavior of the first significant digit (1938) -- Coinciding birthdays (1939) -- Lévy and the arc sine law (1939) -- Simpson's paradox (1951) -- Gamow, Stern, and elevators (1958) -- Monty-Hall, cars, and goats (1975) -- Parrondo's perplexing paradox (1996).

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Publication Date:2012
Edition:1., Auflage

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Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

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ISBN:9781118314333, 1118314336, 9781118314319, 111831431X, 9781118063255, 1118063252, 9781118314326, 1118314328, 9781118314340, 1118314344, 1280592796, 9781280592799
oclc:ocn852512338
LC Classification:QA273.A4
Dewey Decimal:510

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