Counterexamples in probability and statistics: J. P. Romano and A. F. Siegel, Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, 1986, 303 pp.

✍ Scribed by Gian-Carlo Rota

• Book ID: 102621768
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 73
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-8708
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-8708(89)90073-x

✦ Synopsis

We thought that the generalization of the notion of space had ended with topoi, but we were mistaken. The more time goes on, the less we know what space really is. Maybe space is the most generally consistent "thing" in which certain constructions can be carried out. But what is a "thing"? Read this book and you may find out.