| Huygens' Five Problems on Probability |
| Received:September 13, 2005 Revised:July 06, 2006 |
| Key Words:
probability huygens recursion expectation dice.
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| Fund Project:the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10471111); Wuwenjun Silk-Road Tianyuan Funds. |
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| Abstract: |
| Huygens has put forward five problems in his book, but without solution. These problems can be regarded as both resolving practice questions and prolongation of the propositions in his book. He advanced the probability questions to generalization, which laid the foundation for further development. This paper attempts to testify these problems by the Huygens' method and compare them modern methods. |
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| DOI:10.3770/j.issn:1000-341X.2007.04.055 |
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