Stochastic thinking in the Bible and the Talmud

DOI10.1080/00033799800200161zbMath0974.01015OpenAlexW2051989047WikidataQ58136989 ScholiaQ58136989MaRDI QIDQ2735930

Oscar B. Sheynin

Publication date: 5 September 2001

Published in: Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033799800200161

zbMATH Keywords

probabilityAristotledecision-makingstatisticsrandomnessPoissonNewtonTalmudBibleMaimonidesstochastic thinking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99)

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Cites Work

• H. Poincaré's work on probability
• Early antecedents of error theory
• On the prehistory of the theory of probability
• On the controllability and the stabilizability of linear systems

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