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| Title | The Doeblin affaire: Alfred, Wolfgang and some other ones. About intuition and invention in mathematics and literature |
| Author | PETIT Marc |
| Keywords | Consciousness/Subconscious, Döblin Alfred, Doeblin Wolfgang, Intuition and invention, Mathematics and Poetry, Probability calculus, Stochastics |
| Topics | Epistemology, History of Mathematics |
| Abstract | In this essay, Marc Petit, a novelist and professor of German literature, who wrote the main biography of the German probabilist Wolfgang Doeblin, son of the great novelist Alfred Döblin, pays tribute to Professor Bernard Bru, who introduced him to the history of mathematics in the XXth Century and especially to the amazing figure of Wolfgang Doeblin. In these pages, the reader will find some reflexions and comparisons dealing with the problem of intuition and invention in mathematics and poetry or literature and also several extracts of letters on this subject sent to the author by the well-known history of science specialist. |
| Number | 176, Winter 2006, special issue: Contribution to the history of probabilities. Tribute issue to Bernard Bru |
| Language | French |
| Title | Pascal: the geometry of chance |
| Author | GODFROY-GENIN Anne-Sophie |
| Keywords | Decision, Division problem, Pascal, Probability calculus, Uncertainty, Wager |
| Topics | Decision Theory, History of Mathematics, Probabilities |
| Abstract | Even if Pascal's works are often considered as the origin of the calculus of probabilities, Pascal discovered, strictly speaking, only the solution to the problem of departing the stakes, or division problem, and never called it a "calculus of probabilities". He never used it neither to solve problems due to epistemic uncertainty. He only used the departing of stakes in a decisional context. The most famous example of that use is the thought known as "Pascal's wager". This article is an attempt to examine in which context the Pascalian discovery must be replaced, what is the originality of Pascal's statement, and what are the reasons to explain why Pascal chose other methods to face the epistemic uncertainty, precisely where we would use the calculus of probabilities. |
| Number | 150, Summer 2000, special issue: Doctrine of chances: about calculus of probabilities |
| Language | French |
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