The 500th Anniversary of the Sharing Problem (The Oldest Problem in the Theory of Probability)

DOI10.2307/2975130zbMath0831.60001OpenAlexW4255843046MaRDI QIDQ4838586

Milton Sobel, K. Frankowski

Publication date: 11 February 1996

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2975130

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet integralsexpected waiting timeproblem of sharing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02) History of probability theory (60-03)

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