✦ LIBER ✦
Creating Modern Probability. Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.By Jan von Plato. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne (Cambridge Univ. Press). 1994.
✍ Scribed by Thomas Hochkirchen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0315-0860
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✦ Synopsis
The reviewer hopes this book will be widely read and enjoyed, and that it will be followed by other volumes telling even more of the fascinating story of Soviet mathematics. It should also be followed in a few years by an update, so that we can know if this great accumulation of talent will have survived the economic and political crisis that is just now robbing it of many of its most brilliant stars (see the article, ''To guard the future of Soviet mathematics,'' by A.