Mathematical Probability

Brownian Motion: The Link Between Probability and Mathematical Analysis

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The Early Development of Mathematical Probability

Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermat are credited with founding mathematical probability because they solved the problem of points, the problem of equitably dividing the stakes when a fair game is halted before either player has enough points to win. This problem had been discussed for several centuries before 1654, but Pascal and Fermat were the first to give the solution we now consider correct. T...

The Discovery of Mathematical Probability Theory: a Case Study in the Logic of Mathematical Inquiry

ing from their actual experience with games of chance, a collection of possible outcomes of aleatory trials. This does not mean that the collection or complete enumeration of possible outcomes was directly perceived; it rather means that these inquirers were able to imagine the aleatory situation of dice-throwing, for example, in such a careful, attentive way so as to seize upon the complete en...

Quantum probability and the mathematical modelling of decision-making.

This Theme Issue is devoted to selected papers from work presented at the conference ‘Quantum probability and the mathematical modelling of decision-making’ held at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto, in March of 2015. The meeting came about from a joint effort which included Andrei Khrennikov, Emmanuel Haven, Jerome Busemeyer, Emmanuel Pothos, Eht...

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