Defusing Bertrand's paradox

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXT036zbMATH Open1357.60009OpenAlexW2049200413WikidataQ59443943 ScholiaQ59443943MaRDI QIDQ2965407FDOQ2965407

Authors: Zalán Gyenis, Miklós Rédei 

Publication date: 3 March 2017

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Haar measureprinciple of indifferenceBertrand's paradoxlabelling invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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