Theory of Probability

By Oscar Sheynin

This treatise is written on an elementary level; in more difficult cases the final formulas are provided without proof. Nevertheless, it was impossible to leave out integrals and I also had to differentiate an integral with respect to a parameter. I include many examples taken from the history of probability and hope that my subject has thus become lively. I especially quote Karl Pearson's (1978, p. 1) repentant confession: I do feel how wrongful it was to work for so many years at statistics and neglect its history. In spite of a few mistakes, his book deserves serious attention. Thus, in 4.1.1 I criticize his opinion about Jakob Bernoulli. I have devoted much attention to the notion of probability which fully conforms to Langevin's statement (1913/1914, p. 3): Dans toutes ces questions in the kinetic theory] la difficult principale est, comme nous le verrons, de donner une d finition correcte et claire de la probabilit . Note however that correct definition sounds strangely.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6138501527
• ISBN13: 9786138501527
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"