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 p. : : ill. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781118063255, 1118063252
oclc:ocn824334257
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 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 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 Tea (193…