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"The Gibbon of Math History". Who Invented the St. Petersburg Paradox? Khinchin's resolution
Valerii Salov
A sentence from Carl Boyer's A History of Mathematics can be interpreted so that the full brothers Nicolaus II (02/06/1695 - 07/31/1726) and Daniel Bernoulli (02/08/1700 - 03/17/17…
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Inevitable Dottie Number. Iterals of cosine and sine
Valerii Salov
The unique real root of cos(x) = x, recently referred to as the Dottie number, is expressed as an iteral of cosine. Using the derivatives of iterals, it is shown why this number is…