Probability via Expectation (eBook)

Peter Whittle (Autor)

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2013
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4612-2892-9 (ISBN)

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This book is a complete revision of the earlier work Probability which ap- peared in 1970. While revised so radically and incorporating so much new material as to amount to a new text, it preserves both the aim and the approach of the original. That aim was stated as the provision of a 'first text in probability, de- manding a reasonable but not extensive knowledge of mathematics, and taking the reader to what one might describe as a good intermediate level'. In doing so it attempted to break away from stereotyped applications, and consider applications of a more novel and significant character. The particular novelty of the approach was that expectation was taken as the prime concept, and the concept of expectation axiomatized rather than that of a probability measure. In the preface to the original text of 1970 (reproduced below, together with that to the Russian edition of 1982) I listed what I saw as the advantages of the approach in as unlaboured a fashion as I could. I also took the view that the text rather than the author should persuade, and left the text to speak for itself. It has, indeed, stimulated a steady interest, to the point that Springer-Verlag has now commissioned this complete reworking.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
• ISBN-10: 1-4612-2892-1 / 1461228921
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-2892-9 / 9781461228929