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40 Puzzles and Problems in Probability and Mathematical Statistics

By Wolfgang Schwarz

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
978-0-387-73511-5, 978-0-387-73512-2
ASIN
B0028085VQ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2282142 bytes)
Series
Problem Books in Mathematics
Edition
1
Pages
124\134
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The present book is based on the view that cognitive skills are best acquired by solving challenging, non-standard probability problems. The author's own experience, both in learning and in teaching, is that challenging problems often provide more, and longer lasting, inductive insights than plain-style deductions from general concepts. Problems help to develop, and to sharpen our intuition for important probabilistical concepts and tools such as conditionaing or first-step analyses.Many puzzles and problems presented here are either new within a problem solving context (although as topics in fundamental research they are of course long known) or are variations of classical problems which follow directly from elementary concepts. A small number of particularly instructive problems is taken from previous sources which in this case are generally given.

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