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Providing cutting-edge perspectives and real-world insights into the greater utility of probability and its applications, the Handbook of Probability offers an equal balance of theory and direct applications in a non-technical, yet comprehensive, format.

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1 History of Probability Theory

4 Paradoxes in Probability Theory
4 Paradoxes in probability theory
NicholasShackel
Introduction

We call something a paradox if it strikes us as peculiar in a certain way, if it strikes us as something that is not simply nonsense, and yet it poses some difficulty in seeing how it could be sense. When we examine paradoxes more ...

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