Pascal and the Problem of Points

DOI10.2307/1402496MaRDI QIDQ3966078zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. W. F. Edwards

Publication date 1982

Published in International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1402496

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetical triangleB. Pascalmathematical expectationP. d. Fermatproblem of points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of probability theory (60-03)

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