Creating Modern Probability - Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective

List of contents

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.

Summary

This is the only book to chart the history and development of modern probability theory, showing how in the first thirty years of this century probability theory became a mathematical science.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Von Plato, Jan Von (University of Helsinki) Plato, Jan von Plato
• Assisted by: Brian Skyrms (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2006
• EAN: 9780521597357
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59735-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 547 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Probabili
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries