| Description |
1 online resource (1 v.) : ill. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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). |
| Subject |
Probabilities -- Famous problems.
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Probabilities -- History.
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| Related To |
Print version: Gorroochurn, Prakash, 1971- Classic problems of probability. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012 9781118063255 (DLC) 2011051089 (OCoLC)757478610 |
| ISBN |
9781118063255 (pbk.) |
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1118063252 (pbk.) |
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