Children had to choose one of two urns—each comprising beads of winning and losing colours—from which to draw a winning bead. Three experiments, aimed at diagnosing rules of choice and designed ...

Chernoff [1] has called attention to a paper of Mann and Wald [5], which provides a general theory and a convenient notation for the derivation of theorems concerning stochastic limits and limit ...

ON 8 September 1526, the Blessed Virgin’s birthday, Jerome Cardano was in Venice. While others were praying, Cardano was playing cards at the house of senator Thomas Lezun. He was confident that his ...