scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1195550

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Authors O. B. Sheĭnin

Publication date 15 December 1998

zbMATH Keywords

randomness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of probability theory (60-03)

Review text

This is essentially a survey with a bibliography of 110 items (whose order is not alphabetic) excluding original sources in Greek and Latin, following on from what the author calls his preliminary investigations published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences. The section headings are: 1. Introduction. 2. Mathematics and the understanding of chance [randomness]. 3. Randomness does not exist. 4. Randomness is something possible. 5. Randomness is deviation from the laws of nature. 6. Randomness is the absence of prespecification, or of aim. 7. Randomness is something ``equally likely. 8. Randomness is the nonstability of motion or of initial conditions. 9. Randomness is the result of the action of compound causes. 10. Randomness is the result of the action of insignificant causes resulting in small consequences. 11. Necessity and randomness. 12. Conclusions. The bibliography suffers from some regrettable misprints, e.g. [60] De Noivre; [106] Naxwell; while reference [107] is said in the text (p. 98) to be to Smoluchowski, but is given as to Laplace on p. 105.

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