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Probability unfolding, 1965‒2015

Part of: History of mathematics and mathematicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2016

N. H. Bingham
N. H. Bingham*
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
*
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Email address: n.bingham@ic.ac.uk
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Abstract

We give a personal (and we hope, not too idiosyncratic) view of how our subject of probability theory has developed during the last half-century, and the author in tandem with it.

Keywords

Probabilityhistory of mathematicsautobiography

MSC classification

Primary: 01A60: 20th century
Secondary: 01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 48 , Issue A: Probability, Analysis and Number Theory , July 2016 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2016 

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