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I'm spending too much time trying to get a handle on TeX and not enough writing my book!

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Did Cantor know about Boole's work in logic, and did it influence his work on sets?
Jan 14, 2022
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Was Poisson and other distributions found by solving applied problems or by playing around theoretically?
Aug 14, 2022
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Did Cantor coin the terms countable and uncountable? If not, who did?
Apr 11, 2022
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Why was the term random "variable" applied to a mapping?
Dec 29, 2021
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What advances in statistics did measure-theoretic probability theory allow?
Dec 15, 2022
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Where is conditional probability in Bayes' paper
Jul 4
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where does trace $\sigma$-algebra come from
Feb 24, 2022
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What problem was Borel trying to solve?
Apr 29, 2022
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When did Zermelo and Fraenkel publish their axioms?
Jan 21, 2022
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Poisson's approximation to the binomial
Aug 15
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Why a 'collection' of sets and not a 'set' of sets in sigma-algebra

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