عنوان

Classic problems of probability

شابک

9781118063255 (pbk.)

کد کشور

IR

شماره

EN-52623

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

کشور محل نشر

IR

عنوان اصلي

Classic problems of probability

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

/ Prakash Gorroochurn

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Hoboken, N.J.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: John Wiley & Sons,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, c2012.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 314 p. , ill. , 24 cm.

متن يادداشت

Electronic

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Detailing the history of probability, this book examines the classic problems of probability that have shaped the field and emphasizes problems that are counter-intuitive by nature. Classic Problems of Probability is rich in the history of probability while keeping the explanations and discussions as accessible as possible.

متن يادداشت

Contents note continued: 21.Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem No. 72 (1894) -- 22.Borel and a Different Kind of Normality (1909) -- 23.Borel's Paradox and Kolmogorov's Axioms (1909, 1933) -- 24.Of Borel, Monkeys, and the New Creationism (1913) -- 25.Kraitchik's Neckties and Newcomb's Problem (1930, 1960) -- 26.Fisher and the Lady Tasting Tea (1935) -- 27.Benford and the Peculiar Behavior of the First Significant Digit (1938) -- 28.Coinciding Birthdays (1939) -- 29.Levy and the Arc Sine Law (1939) -- 30.Simpson's Paradox (1951) -- 31.Gamow, Stern, and Elevators (1958) -- 32.Monty-Hall, Cars, and Goats (1975) -- 33.Parrondo's Perplexing Paradox (1996).

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: 1.Cardano and Games of Chance (1564) -- 2.Galileo and a Discovery Concerning Dice (1620) -- 3.The Chevalier de Mere Problem I: The Problem of Dice (1654) -- 4.The Chevalier de Mere Problem II: The Problem of Points (1654) -- 5.Huygens and the Gambler's Ruin (1657) -- 6.The Pepys-Newton Connection (1693) -- 7.Rencontres with Montmort (1708) -- 8.Jacob Bernoulli and his Golden Theorem (1713) -- 9.De Moivre's Problem (1730) -- 10.De Moivre, Gauss, and the Normal Curve (1730, 1809) -- 11.Daniel Bernoulli and the St. Petersburg Problem (1738) -- 12.d'Alembert and the "Croix ou Pile" Article (1754) -- 13.d'Alembert and the Gambler's Fallacy (1761) -- 14.Bayes, Laplace, and Philosophies of Probability (1764, 1774) -- 15.Leibniz's Error (1768) -- 16.The Buffon Needle Problem (1777) -- 17.Bertrand's Ballot Problem (1887) -- 18.Bertrand's Strange Three Boxes (1889) -- 19.Bertrand's Chords (1889) -- 20.Three Coins and a Puzzle from Galton (1894) --

موضوع مستند نشده

Probabilities, Famous problems

موضوع مستند نشده

Probabilities, History

موضوع مستند نشده

Statistics & probability

شماره رده

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gorroochurn, Prakash,1971-

کشور

ایران

نام ميزبان

9781118063255.pdf

شماره دسترسي

عادی

اطلاعات مختصر

عادی

تاريخ و ساعت مذاکره و دسترسي

9781118063255.pdf

نوع فرمت الکترونيکي

متن

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog

فرمت انتشار

e

نوع ماده

BL

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y