Search results for "Probability" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to teach as a Privatdozent, giving courses on probability and geometry. He studied for a while with Dirichlet, and they became close friends. Because ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- This led to a great deal of work on induction, probability, and "confirmation," (which combined verification and falsification; see below). ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue. ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- of a reserve chute comes from the probability of an unlikely main malfunction being multiplied by the even less likely probability of a reserve ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- a grasping motion, then in all probability the sensation of contacting a doorknob should follow." Of course, this statement itself contains ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- near the end of a game where there is no probability for any other play to score points. ==Biblical source== [[Image:Annunciation.jpg|thumb|The ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- Thermal neutrons have a far higher probability of fissioning uranium ... with plutonium 239), due to the lower probability of fissioning U-235, and ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- thirteen years. It may be conjectured with great probability that the ten years date from 1579, when Tylney was appointed master of the revels with a ...11 KB (1,875 words) - 06:20, 3 August 2022
- in 1888. His statistical study of the probability of extinction of surnames ... 1893, and 1895) Galton estimated the probability of two persons having ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- include the simplicity, the prior probability, or the explanatory power of the explanation. A proof theoretical abduction method for first order ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, one of his most important works. In this, he explores the "Condorcet ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- that had the highest possible degree of probability. The term "eclectics" comes from the Greek eklektikos: “choosing the best.” ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- would establish the inherent probability of the existence of objects ... has been carried on regarding the probability of their having preserved ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 05:56, 25 August 2020
- than simply as an operation of the laws of probability. Moreover, while tragic events occur to a lesser or greater extent in all families, they make ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- that an alpha particle has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of "tunneling" through the energy barrier and escaping from the nucleus. ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- high amounts of mercury, indicating a high probability that he was poisoned. Modern suspicion falls on his advisors Belsky and Boris Godunov, who ...11 KB (1,776 words) - 06:37, 11 March 2024
- set theory, measure theory, ergodic theory, probability, representation theory, and differential geometry. ==Arithmetic== The Peano axioms are ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Study of 2 Esdras is complicated by the probability that its early chapters—found only in Latin manuscripts but in not Greek ones—appear ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- He also introduced statistical arguments and probability into his calculations, something that had not been done by his predecessors. Clausius took into ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
