Early influences on probability and statistics in the Russian empire
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Early influences on probability and statistics in the Russian empire
zbMATH Open document ID: 0917.01019
author: Eugene Seneta
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 1999-03-11T00:00:00Z
review text: The author describes early Russian works on probability (but does not mention Davidov) and examines the background of Chebyshev's pertinent contributions and his ties with France (mostly through Bienaymé). Only from among Western sources, his references do not include the piece on Chebyshev from the Dict. Sci. Biogr. 3 (1971) or the English translation of Mathematics of the 19th century. Mathematical logic, algebra, number theory, probability theory. Transl. from the Russian. Basel etc.: Birkhäuser (1992; Zbl 0749.01016) by \textit{A. N. Kolmogorov} (ed.) and \textit{A. P. Youshkevich} (ed.). Then, translations of two relevant papers of Bernstein have just appeared [\textit{S. N. Bernstein} et al., ``From Markov to Kolmogorov''. Egelsbach (1998)]. The author states that lectures in probability began ``in some (Russian) universities'' before 1837. I know only one such case: Bartels, in Dorpat (Tartu), in 1836.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60-03
zbMATH DE Number: 1234500
zbMATH Keywords: Chebyshev
zbMATH Keywords: Bienaymé
reviewed by: O. B. Sheĭnin
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s004070050027
OpenAlex ID: W1981800712
DOI: 10.1007/S004070050027
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