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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Prakash Gorroochurn |
| ISBN: | 9781118063255 1118063252 |
| OCLC Number: | 757478610 |
| Awards: | Winner of PROSE (Mathematics) 2012 |
| Description: | xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 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 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). |
| Responsibility: | Prakash Gorroochurn. |
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