J V Uspensky creator J V Uspensky text ;Probabilities New York; London McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1937 monographic eng

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ix, 411 pages ;24 cm Computation of probability by direct enumeration of cases -- Theorems of total and compound probability -- Repeated trials -- Probabilities of hypotheses and Bayes' theorem -- Use of difference equations in solving problems of probability -- Bernoulli's theorem -- Approximate evaluation of probabilities in Bernoullian case -- Further considerations on games of chance -- Mathematical expectation -- The law of large numbers -- Application of the law of large numbers -- Probabilities in continuum -- The general concept of distribution -- Fundamental limit theorems -- Normal distribution in two dimensions. Limit theorem for sums of independent vectors. Origin of normal correlation -- Distribution of certain functions of normally distributed variables -- Appendix I. Euler's summation formula--Stirling's formula--some definite integrals -- Appendix II. Method of moments and its applications -- Appendix III. On a Gaussian problem. /J V Uspensky Mathematics 519 USP Donated by Mathematics Department 200121 20200121111300.0