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Spiritual Foundations for Jesuit Commitment to Science [PDF]
, 2015 Coyne, George, S.J. +1 more
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An Extension of the Buffon Needle Problem
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1953 openaire +2 more sources
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1990
Abstract There certainly never was a man belonging to that class which I have called amateur mathematicians who had a wider interest in all science, especially descriptive science, than George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. His monumental Histoire naturelle is overwhelming in size and the variety of topics treated, but he had besides
Julian Lowell Coolidge, Jeremy Gray
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Abstract There certainly never was a man belonging to that class which I have called amateur mathematicians who had a wider interest in all science, especially descriptive science, than George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. His monumental Histoire naturelle is overwhelming in size and the variety of topics treated, but he had besides
Julian Lowell Coolidge, Jeremy Gray
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The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy
Isis, 1976B UFFON'S ATTACK ON LINNAEUS and Linnean taxonomy in the Histoire ntaturelle, getnerale et particu1iere has been interpreted by a long line of historians of biology as an unfortunate and basically misconceived criticism of the taxonomic reforms which served to free biology in the eighteenth century from the chaos of conflicting systems and ...
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The Mathematical Gazette, 1983
In 1777 Georges Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, challenged the French Academy with a problem, now famous, which went as follows: Parallel lines, d units apart, are ruled on a plane surface; a needle of length l < d units is thrown at random on the plane; what is the probability that it will ...
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In 1777 Georges Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, challenged the French Academy with a problem, now famous, which went as follows: Parallel lines, d units apart, are ruled on a plane surface; a needle of length l < d units is thrown at random on the plane; what is the probability that it will ...
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Mathematics Magazine, 1971
Abstract : The distribution of the number of intersections of a needle and the circumference of a circle is studied under two distinct assumptions on the random manner in which the former is tossed on the circle. Numerical results and graphs are provided. (Author)
M. F. Neuts, P. Purdue
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Abstract : The distribution of the number of intersections of a needle and the circumference of a circle is studied under two distinct assumptions on the random manner in which the former is tossed on the circle. Numerical results and graphs are provided. (Author)
M. F. Neuts, P. Purdue
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Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction
Journal of the History of Biology, 2023Throughout the Histoire naturelle Buffon was ever aware of epistemological issues involving the reproduction of species, the only beings in nature. By the 1760s he had come to believe that empirical evidence, the source of all human knowledge, revealed that reproduction was a physical process, involving a common living (minute, active, and lively ...
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