Timeline for Does some published texbook take a particular approach (described here) to the transition from discrete to continuous probability distributions?
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| Feb 26 at 15:07 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | @SamHopkins, The chapter that's relevant is chapter 2 of Herzberg's book. Here a Poisson walk is defined on pages 14-15. The rest of the book is somewhat more advanced. | |
| Feb 26 at 14:54 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Do these textbooks really cover the material of a course like the one the OP had in mind? "An introductory probability course that assumes the students have had first-year calculus and understand mathematical reasoning." I'm pretty skeptical of that... | |
| Feb 25 at 9:22 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Feb 22 at 21:01 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here. Before posting a comment below this one, please review the purposes of comments. Comments that do not request clarification or suggest improvements usually belong as an answer, on MathOverflow Meta, or in MathOverflow Chat. Comments continuing discussion may be removed. | |
| Feb 20 at 14:13 | history | edited | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19 at 11:18 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Nelson, Edward. Radically elementary probability theory. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 117. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987. x+98 pp. @HollisWilliams | |
| Feb 19 at 11:17 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | Could you provide some more references and details? | |
| Feb 19 at 10:43 | history | answered | Mikhail Katz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |