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Isaac Newton as a Probabilist — mentioned by dpflan

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:50:22 GMT

Monty Hall himself wrote to the Harvard C.S. Professor Lawrence Denenberg questioning the counter-intuitive logic: > https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/373/the-monty-hall... ____ The topic of the counter-intuitive nature of probability reminds of Newton's letter to Pepys - "In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made." Here is the classic Newton-Pepys Problem http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/february12014/ Here is the Newton-Pepys problem explained by Professor Joe…

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Isaac Newton as a Probabilist — HN submission

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:57:51 GMT

Isaac Newton as a Probabilist (2007)

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Isaac Newton as a Probabilist — mentioned by dpflan

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:06:49 GMT

Much of probability is also counterintuitive and challenging to all human minds: for example, here is the classic Newton-Pepys Problem http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/february12014/ and here is further discussion about the logical error Newton made in his solution: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0701089.pdf ("In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made.")

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