Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
Gábor J. Székely, "Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics"
1986 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 9027718997 | PDF | 5 mb
1986 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 9027718997 | PDF | 5 mb
Just like any other branch of science, mathematics. also describes the contrasts of the world we live in. It is natural therefore that the history of mathematics has revealed many interesting paradoxes some of which have served as starting-points for great changes. The mathematics of randomness is especially rich in paradoxes. According to Charles Sanders Peirce no branch of.mathematics is as easy to slip up in as probability theory. This book aims to show how this rapidly progressing and widely used branch of knowledge has developed from paradoxes. It tries to show those exciting. moments that preceded or followed the solution of some outstanding paradoxical problems which are rarely mentioned in .mono-graphs. The book deals not only with interesting but not very important "'gems~' of probability theory, far from the~main stream of development; on the contrary it emphasizes … the _ contradictions that have done the most to clear up fundamental crises in the mathematics of randomness. The book also deals with problems that were not originally regarded as paradoxes.
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