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40 Puzzles and Problems in Probability and Mathematical Statistics

By Wolfgang Schwarz

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
0387735119, 9780387735115
Open Library ID
OL16158618M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2271317 bytes)
Series
Problem books in mathematics
Edition
1
Pages
134\134
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Математика;Теория вероятностей и математическая ст

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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