On the St. Petersburg paradox

DOI10.1007/BF00329984zbMath0762.01007OpenAlexW2041710248WikidataQ29541967 ScholiaQ29541967MaRDI QIDQ1202996

Jacques Dutka

Publication date: 9 February 1993

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00329984

zbMATH Keywords

utilityhistory of probabilitySt. Petersburg paradoxDaniel Bernoulliinfinite expectationmoral expectation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Convergence of probability measures (60B10) History of probability theory (60-03)

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• Huygens' foundations of probability
• The St. Petersburg paradox: A con game?
• Early history of the theory of probability
• Pascal and the Invention of Probability Theory
• A limit theorem which clarifies the ‘Petersburg Paradox'
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