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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Prakash Gorroochurn |
| ISBN: | 9781118063255 1118063252 |
| OCLC Number: | 757478610 |
| Description: | xi, 314 p. : ill. ; 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 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 (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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