The Probability Integral: Its Origin, Its Importance, and Its Calculation

This book tells the story of the probability integral, the approaches to analyzing it throughout history, and...
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Author: Paul J. Nahin
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The Probability Integral: Its Origin, Its Importance, and Its Calculation by Nahin, Paul J.

The Probability Integral: Its Origin, Its Importance, and Its Calculation

$237.78

The Probability Integral: Its Origin, Its Importance, and Its Calculation

$237.78
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This book tells the story of the probability integral, the approaches to analyzing it throughout history, and the many areas of science where it arises. The so-called probability integral, the integral over the real line of a Gaussian function, occurs ubiquitously in mathematics, physics, engineering and probability theory. Stubbornly resistant to the undergraduate toolkit for handling integrals, calculating its value and investigating its properties occupied such mathematical luminaries as De Moivre, Laplace, Poisson, and Liouville. This book introduces the probability integral, puts it into a historical context, and describes the different approaches throughout history to evaluate and analyze it. The author also takes entertaining diversions into areas of math, science, and engineering where the probability integral arises: as well as being indispensable to probability theory and statistics, it also shows up naturally in thermodynamics and signal processing. Designed to be accessible to anyone at the undergraduate level and above, this book will appeal to anyone interested in integration techniques, as well as historians of math, science, and statistics.



Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 09/09/2023
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9783031384158

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