Re: [HM] Is Statistics Part of Mathematics?

John Puddefoot (j.puddefoot@etoncollege.org.uk)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:40:54 +0100

I may be very dense, but I am baffled by how one could even start a course
in statistics without at least some idea of probability theory. What is a
pdf, or an Expectation, or just about anything else, without probability?

On the subject of an inventor of the Greek Grundlagenkrisis, would it be
helpful for participants to post what they deem the earliest known reference
or quasi-reference in the ancient, mediaeval and modern worlds, and
challenge others to find an earlier reference?

It would certainly be of interest to know when, for example, the first
post-renaissance reference occurs, and so forth.

Am also wonder, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, how many people one needs to be
worried by something, and who they need to be, before what ensues merits the
term 'crisis'.

John Puddefoot