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| Oct 28, 2010 at 4:25 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | @Andy Wise-ass comment to Micheal aside,you made a very fair objection above. Discrete probability is fully half the science.I could counter it by saying combinatorics is essentially analysis on finite sets,but that's a real stretch. | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 4:18 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @Michael : Obviously, you have not been following the saga of Andrew L... | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 3:50 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | I can't believe someone would come along a year later and make this comment. | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 1:56 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @Andrew L : While I didn't vote this answer up, it is at least (arguably) correct. Your answer, on the other hand, reveals a profound misunderstanding of probability theory. Though probability theory uses many tools from real analysis (eg measure theory), the way it uses those tools and the intuition/philosophical explanation behind them is completely different from those of traditional real analysis. Not to mention that your answer pretends there doesn't exist a giant field of finitary probability that is much more closely connected with combinatorics than with real analysis. | |
| Oct 27, 2010 at 21:00 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | I can't believe this guy puts down a high school slogan and gets 13 points for it and I got downvoted for "Probability is real analysis with the concept of an expectation." | |
| Nov 10, 2009 at 11:50 | comment | added | lhf | There is also the book by Flajolet and Sedgewick, which is available at algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/books.html | |
| Oct 25, 2009 at 13:18 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | This was a "chalk talk" so I can't make the notes available. The best introduction I know is Wilf's book generatingfunctionology, which can be downloaded from his web page. | |
| Oct 25, 2009 at 7:05 | comment | added | vonjd | Could you please add a link to that talk or some additional material on the matter? Thank you! | |
| Oct 24, 2009 at 15:35 | history | answered | Michael Lugo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |