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On the Bicentenary in St. Petersburg of Jacob Bernoulli's Theorem

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type="main" xml:id="insr12048-abs-0001"> We focus on the Bicentenary (1913) celebrations, organised in St. Petersburg, Russia, by the great probabilist, A. A. Markov, founder of the theory of Markov chains. This theory was stimulated by the need to demonstrate a Law of Large Numbers for sums of dependent random variables. Markov's work on the Law of Large Numbers originating in the celebrations was exposited and extended by S. N. Bernstein and, in English, by J. V. Uspensky, who had played an integral part in the St. Petersburg celebrations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Eugene Seneta, 2014. "On the Bicentenary in St. Petersburg of Jacob Bernoulli's Theorem," International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute, vol. 82(1), pages 17-26, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:istatr:v:82:y:2014:i:1:p:17-26
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