Timeline for Overview of interpretations of classical probability
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| Aug 19, 2019 at 19:39 | comment | added | Tom Copeland | Decades ago I did some reading on different interpretations, sometime after I had studied quantum and classical statistical mech in college. Fine, Borel, Jaynes, Keynes, and Ruelle are some authors whose writings on the topic I at least perused as well as Khaneman and Tversky. There were others, but my library suffered a catastrophe, so I have no more notes. This question is really for those advanced undergrad and grad students who might benefit from/appreciate understanding the diversity of schools of thought and passions in this field. All contributions to this post are appreciated. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 5:39 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 18:21 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Mathematicians generally do not like discussing philosophical aspects of probability, or its relation to the so-called "real world". A rare exception is the Russian textbook by Tutubalin which I read in my youth, unfortunately I do not know its translations to any other languages. Other good accounts by mathematicians are A. Renyi, Letters on Probability and E. Borel, Probability and certainty. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 10:49 | comment | added | provocateur | Feller's book is of course an excellent book on probability theory, but I'm not sure it is very helpful to the person wanting to understand interpretations of probability. Very little technical knowledge is necessary for that. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 6:20 | comment | added | Yuval Peres | I suggest learning some probability, as in Feller volume 1, instead. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | user44143 | That article recommends Terrence Fine’s 1973 book, Theories of Probability, and I concur. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 1:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 0:44 | history | edited | Tom Copeland | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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