文档介绍：Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics
and Physical Sciences
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Hans Fischer
A History of the
Central Limit Theorem
From Classical to Modern Probability Theory
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Hans Fischer
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Mathematisch-Geographische Fakultät
D-85072 Eichstätt
Germany
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ISBN 978-0-387-87856-0 e-ISBN 978-0-387-87857-7
DOI -0-387-87857-7
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): Primary: 60-03; Secondary: 01A55, 01A60, 26-03, 42-03,
60F05, 62-03
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Preface
This book is an entirely revised, in some parts considerably shortened, in other parts
enlarged, version of a study which was originally published in German with the ti-
tle “Die verschiedenen Formen und Funktionen des zentralen Grenzwertsatzes in
der Entwicklung von der klassischen zur modernen Wahrscheinlich