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Nahin, Paul J |
The Probability Integral |
I12823 |
2023 |
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Title | The Probability Integral : Its Origin, Its Importance, and Its Calculation |
Author(s) | Nahin, Paul J |
Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. |
Description | XXX, 189 p. 34 illus. in color : online resource |
Abstract Note | This book tells the story of the probability integral, the approaches to analyzing it throughout history, and the many areas of science where it arises. The so-called probability integral, the integral over the real line of a Gaussian function, occurs ubiquitously in mathematics, physics, engineering and probability theory. Stubbornly resistant to the undergraduate toolkit for handling integrals, calculating its value and investigating its properties occupied such mathematical luminaries as De Moivre, Laplace, Poisson, and Liouville. This book introduces the probability integral, puts it into a historical context, and describes the different approaches throughout history to evaluate and analyze it. The author also takes entertaining diversions into areas of math, science, and engineering where the probability integral arises: as well as being indispensable to probability theory and statistics, it also shows up naturally in thermodynamics and signal processing. Designed to be accessibleto anyone at the undergraduate level and above, this book will appeal to anyone interested in integration techniques, as well as historians of math, science, and statistics |
ISBN,Price | 9783031384165 |
Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK - SPRINGER
2. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
3. HISTORY
4. History of Mathematical Sciences
5. History of Statistics
6. Mathematical Methods in Physics
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. MATHEMATICS
9. Measure and Integration
10. MEASURE THEORY
11. PROBABILITIES
12. PROBABILITY THEORY
13. Statistics??
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Item Type | eBook |
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