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Tag Archives: ergodic theory
Creating modern probability
The title of this post is that of a book by John von Plato, on the history of probability theory from the start of the twentieth century to the 1930s, starting with Borel and Einstein (but with many backward looks) … Continue reading
Posted in books, exposition
Tagged de Finetti, ergodic theory, exchangeability, Kolmogorov, measure theory, statistical physics, statistics, von Mises
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A literary-mathematical puzzle
In 1968, Stanislaw Lem, the great Polish science-fiction writer, published a book entitled Głos Pana. It was translated into English and published under the title His Master’s Voice in 1983. It tells the story of how a message from an … Continue reading
Posted in books, history
Tagged combinatorics, Endre Szemeredi, ergodic theory, Hillel Furstenberg, Stanislaw Lem
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