Rand Corporation, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates (1955; repr., Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand, 2001), pp. ix-x. See also Lola L. Lopes, 'Doing the Impossible: A Note on Induction and the Experience of Randomness', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 8, no. 6 (November 1982): 626-36.
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The account of Joseph Jagger (sometimes spelled Jaggers) is from John Grochowski, 'House Has a Built-in Edge When Roulette Wheel Spins', Chicago Sun-Times, February 21, 1997.
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Более подробные сведения о семье Бернулли и жизни Якоба: Е. S. Pearson, ed., The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific and Religious Thought: Lectures by Karl Pearson Given at University College, London, during the Academic Sessions 1921-1933 (New York: Macmillan, 1978), pp. 221-37; J. O. Fleckenstein, 'Johann und Jakob Bernoulli', in Elemente der Mathematik, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift, no. 6 (Basel, 1949); and Stephen Stigler, 'The Bernoullis of Basel', Journal of Econometrics 75, no. l (1996): 7-13.
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Quoted in Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, p. 224.
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Stephen Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), p. 65.
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Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, p. 226.
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William H. Cropper, The Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking (London: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 31.
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Johann Bernoulli, quoted in Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, p. 232.
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Это зависит от того, что вы считаете «современной концепцией». Я соглашаюсь с определением Ханкеля 1871 г, подробно изложенным здесь: Gert Schubring, Conflicts between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany (New York: Springer, 2005), pp. 22-32.
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David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves, Statistics, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 274-75.
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Цитата Хэкинга: Ian Hacking, The Emergence of Probability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 143. Цитата Бернулли: David, Gods, Games and Gambling, p. 136.
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Дискуссия на тему того, что именно доказал Бернулли: Stigler, The History of Statistics, pp. 63-78, and Ian Hacking, The Emergence of Probability, pp. 155-65.
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Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, 'Belief in the Law of Small Numbers', Psychological Bulletin 76, no. 2 (1971): 105-10.
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Jakob Bernoulli, quoted in L. E. Maistrov, Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch, trans. Samuel Kotz (New York: Academic Press, 1974), p. 68.