Foundations of Probability - Hardcover

Alfred Renyi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816271143 ISBN 13: 9780816271146

Publisher: Holden Day, 1970

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About this title

About the Author:

Alfred Renyi was Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Alfred Renyi: The Happy Mathematician
Alfred Renyi (1921–1970) was one of the giants of twentieth-century mathematics who, during his relatively short life, made major contributions to combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, and other fields.

Reviewing Probability Theory and Foundations of Probability simultaneously for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society in 1973, Alberto R. Galmarino wrote:

"Both books complement each other well and have, as said before, little overlap. They represent nearly opposite approaches to the question of how the theory should be presented to beginners. Rényi excels in both approaches. Probability Theory is an imposing textbook. Foundations is a masterpiece."

In the Author's Own Words:
"If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy."

"Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?" — Alfred Rényi

About this edition

• Publisher: Holden Day
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0816271143
• ISBN 13: 9780816271146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366