Jan Von Plato, Jan Von Plato

Creating Modern Probability

Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective
Herausgeber: Skyrms, Brian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book the author charts the history and development of modern probability theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521597357
• ISBN-10: 0521597358
• Artikelnr.: 21660198

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Pathways to modern probability
3. Probability in statistical physics
4. Quantum mechanical probability and indeterminism
5. Classical embeddings of probability and chance
6. Von Mises' frequentist probabilities
7. Kolmogorov's measure theoretic probabilities
8. De Finetti's subjective probabilities
Supplement: Nicole Oresme and the ergodicity of rotations
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of subjects.