This concise monograph by a well-known mathematician shows how probability theory, in its simplest form, arises in a variety of contexts and in many different m

The Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive English-language work of reference in mathematics which exists today. W

John Knopfmacher (1937-99) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. ...

The author gives a solution to the central limit problem and proves several forms of the iterated logarithm theorem and the results are then applied to the foll