October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters
Apart from new examples and exercises, some simplifications of proofs, minor improvements, and correction of typographical errors, the principal change from the first edition is the addition of section 9.5, dealing with the central limit theorem for martingales and more general stochastic arrays. vii Preface to the First Edition Probability theory is a branch of mathematics dealing with chance phenomena and has clearly discernible links with the real world. The origins of the sub- ject, generally attributed to investigations by the renowned French mathe- matician Fermat of problems posed by a gambling contemporary to Pascal, have been pushed back a century earlier to the Italian mathematicians Cardano and Tartaglia about 1570 (Ore, 1953). Results as significant as the Bernoulli weak law of large numbers appeared as early as 1713, although its counterpart, the Borel strong law oflarge numbers, did not emerge until 1909. Central limit theorems and conditional probabilities were already being investigated in the eighteenth century, but the first serious attempts to grapple with the logical foundations of probability seem to be Keynes (1921), von Mises (1928; 1931), and Kolmogorov (1933).
Lisa Westberg Peters is the author of nineteen children's books including Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story, the winner of the Minnesota Book Award. Her first book, The Sun, The Wind and the Rain, was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book, and many of her titles have received starred reviews. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, but they spend much of their time at their cabin in northwestern Wisconsin. Visit her at lisawestbergpeters.com. Victoria Tentler-Krylov grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and studied architecture and urban design at Cooper Union and Columbia University. Victoria's artwork has been published by Pink Giraffe Books in Russia and by Spider magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Flutter Magazine in the US. She is the illustrator of Just Read! by Lori Degman. Her first book, a picture-book read-aloud of Peter Pan, was published by Quarto. She lives with her family just outside Boston, MA. Visit Victoria online at cargocollective.com/victoriakrylov.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780805017762 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805017763 |
| Title | October Smiled Back |
| Author | Lisa Westberg Peters |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Henry Holt And Co. (Byr) |
| Year published | 1996-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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