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New Book- Surprises in Probability

September 12th, 2018, 7:51 am

Fun read: Surprises in Probability, Seventeen Short Stories by Henk Tijms

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Re: New Book- Surprises in Probability

September 13th, 2018, 11:01 am

Interesting to see that Euler's number (and who doesn't love their Euler's numbers (*)?) can be approximated using Oberwolfach dinner game etc. Nice.

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