Probability in 1919/20: the von Mises-Pólya-controversy

DOI10.1007/S00407-006-0112-XzbMath1098.01008OpenAlexW2039612160MaRDI QIDQ2503999

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Publication date: 22 September 2006

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-006-0112-x

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic functionscentral limit theoremrandomnessdirectional statisticsRichard von MisesPólyaKollektivs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) History of probability theory (60-03)

Related Items (7)

Martingales in the Study of Randomness ⋮ Richard von Mises’ work for ZAMM until his emigration in 1933 and glimpses of the later history of ZAMM ⋮ In praise (and search) of J. V. Uspensky ⋮ Sets versus trial sequences, Hausdorff versus von Mises: ``pure mathematics prevails in the foundations of probability around 1920 ⋮ Richard von Mises and the ``problem of two races: a statistical satire in 1934 ⋮ Khinchin's 1929 paper on von Mises' frequency theory of probability ⋮ Thinking with notations: epistemic actions and epistemic activities in mathematical practice

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