Helmert's work in the theory of errors

DOI10.1007/BF00374700zbMATH Open0831.01004WikidataQ56115586 ScholiaQ56115586MaRDI QIDQ1897791FDOQ1897791

Authors: O. B. Sheĭnin 

Publication date: 12 February 1996

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

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zbMATH Keywords

normal distributionJames Clerk Maxwellmethod of least squaresgeodesypaired observationserror theorytheory of errorsPierre Simon Laplaceadjustment of triangulationErnst AbbeFeodosy Nikolaewich Krasovskygeodetic observationspartition of varianceJules Bienaymé

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Error analysis and interval analysis (65G99) History of statistical mechanics (82-03)

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