Foundations of Probability (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Renyi, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486462617 ISBN 13: 9780486462615

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2007

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Book by Alfred Renyi

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Reseña del editor

Introducing many innovations in content and methods, this book involves the foundations, basic concepts, and fundamental results of probability theory. Geared toward readers seeking a firm basis for study of mathematical statistics or information theory, it also covers the mathematical notions of experiments and independence. 1970 edition.

Biografía del autor

Alfred Renyi was Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Alfred Renyi: The Happy Mathematician
Alfred Renyi (1921–1970) was one of the giants of twentieth-century mathematics who, during his relatively short life, made major contributions to combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, and other fields.
Reviewing Probability Theory and Foundations of Probability simultaneously for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society in 1973, Alberto R. Galmarino wrote:
"Both books complement each other well and have, as said before, little overlap. They represent nearly opposite approaches to the question of how the theory should be presented to beginners. Rényi excels in both approaches. Probability Theory is an imposing textbook. Foundations is a masterpiece."
In the Author's Own Words:
"If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy."
"Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?" — Alfred Rényi

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0486462617
• ISBN 13: 9780486462615
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384