Classic Problems of Probability - Prakash Gorroochurn
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Name of Book: Classic Problems of Probability Writer: Prakash Gorroochurn Publisher: Wiley ( 2012 ) Pages: 328 This is a very good book. So please seed this after download completes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: Preface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Cardano and Games of Chance (1564) 1 2 Galileo and a Discovery Concerning Dice (1620) 9 3 The Chevalier de Me‼re‼ Problem I: The Problem of Dice (1654) 13 4 The Chevalier de Me‼re‼ Problem II: The Problem of Points (1654) 20 5 Huygens and the GamblerΓÇÖs Ruin (1657) 39 6 The PepysΓÇôNewton Connection (1693) 49 7 Rencontres with Montmort (1708) 54 8 Jacob Bernoulli and his Golden Theorem (1713) 62 9 De MoivreΓÇÖs Problem (1730) 81 10 De Moivre, Gauss, and the Normal Curve (1730, 1809) 89 11 Daniel Bernoulli and the St. Petersburg Problem (1738) 108 12 dΓÇÖAlembert and the ΓÇ£Croix ou PileΓÇ¥ Article (1754) 119 13 dΓÇÖAlembert and the GamblerΓÇÖs Fallacy (1761) 124 14 Bayes, Laplace, and Philosophies of Probability (1764, 1774) 129 15 LeibnizΓÇÖs Error (1768) 156 16 The Buffon Needle Problem (1777) 159 17 BertrandΓÇÖs Ballot Problem (1887) 169 18 BertrandΓÇÖs Strange Three Boxes (1889) 175 19 BertrandΓÇÖs Chords (1889) 179 20 Three Coins and a Puzzle from Galton (1894) 186 21 Lewis CarrollΓÇÖs Pillow Problem No. 72 (1894) 189 22 Borel and a Different Kind of Normality (1909) 194 23 BorelΓÇÖs Paradox and KolmogorovΓÇÖs Axioms (1909, 1933) 199 24 Of Borel, Monkeys, and the New Creationism (1913) 208 25 KraitchikΓÇÖs Neckties and NewcombΓÇÖs Problem (1930, 1960) 215 26 Fisher and the Lady Tasting Tea (1935) 224 27 Benford and the Peculiar Behavior of the First Signi∩¼ücant Digit (1938) 233 28 Coinciding Birthdays (1939) 240 29 Le‼vy and the Arc Sine Law (1939) 247 30 SimpsonΓÇÖs Paradox (1951) 253 31 Gamow, Stern, and Elevators (1958) 260 32 Monty-Hall, Cars, and Goats (1975) 264 33 ParrondoΓÇÖs Perplexing Paradox (1996) 271 Bibliography 277 Photo Credits 296 Index 299 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rightmost numbers are page numbers.