Tercentennial anniversary of Bernoulli’s law of large numbers
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- Manfred Denker
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 16802
- Email: denker@math.psu.edu
- Published electronically: March 28, 2013
- Additional Notes: The author would like to thank Brian Nowakowski and an anonymous referee for valuable comments which led to several improvements of the text.
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- MSC (2010): Primary 60-03; Secondary 01-01, 60F05, 62-03
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01411-3
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