Publication details
The axiomatic melting pot: teaching probabilities in Prague in 1930s
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journ@l Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | http://www.jehps.net/Decembre2006/BilovaMazliakSisma.pdf |
| Keywords | probability, mathematical statistics, teaching of probability, Karel Rychlík, Otomar Pankrac |
| Description | In this paper, we are interested in the teaching of probability theory in Prague and Czechoslovakia, in particular during the 1930s. We focus specially on a textbook, published in Prague by Karel Rychlík in 1938, which uses Kolmogorovs axiomatization, a very exceptional fact before World War II. |