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A Plea for Teaching Probability in Schools.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W. Hope-Jones
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Extract

In your Mathematical Gazette for last month you read that “the mathematical theory of Probability is practically dead”—and that from a real authority on the subject whose name is known and honoured wherever statistics are analysed and laws deduced from them.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 12 , Issue 171 , July 1924 , pp. 139 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1924

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Footnotes

*

A paper read at the Annual Meeting oí the Mathematical Association, January 8, 1924.

References

page 142 note * Not printed here.

page 155 note * Here the speaker turns the “hill.”

page 157 note * Perhaps one may add the superstition that our present electoral system gives the country a Parliament which represents it.