Removing magic from the normal distribution and the Stirling and Wallis formulas

DOI10.1007/S00283-011-9259-7MaRDI QIDQ660175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 29 January 2012

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-011-9259-7

zbMATH Keywords

normal distributionStirling formulaWallis formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50)

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