Next: Basic Definitions---Borel Sets
Up: 1: Basic Definitions
Previous: 1: Basic Definitions
- Formal Basis
- A major difficulty in formulating the theory of probability is
that one must relate it to the real world.
- Cramer amusingly notes that some of the axiomatic approaches to
probability are comparable to definitions of geometry in terms of the
fundamental idea of a point as a limit of a spot of chalk dust of
smaller and smaller size.
- I will first dispose of the 24 lectures that I suffered on formal
probability by noting that the theory can be based on the following
axioms:
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu