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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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MLN, 1999
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, probably the greatest of the natural historians of the French eighteenth century, was admired and venerated for decades by the philosophes for his many works on what we would now call zoology, botany, geology and even cosmology.
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Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, probably the greatest of the natural historians of the French eighteenth century, was admired and venerated for decades by the philosophes for his many works on what we would now call zoology, botany, geology and even cosmology.
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2001
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–1788), was born at Montbard in Burgundy, son of a councillor of the Burgundian parlement. His initial training was in the law, at the Jesuit college in Dijon, but his preference for the physical sciences and mathematics soon dominated.
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George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–1788), was born at Montbard in Burgundy, son of a councillor of the Burgundian parlement. His initial training was in the law, at the Jesuit college in Dijon, but his preference for the physical sciences and mathematics soon dominated.
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Buffon’s problem with regular polygons
Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, 2011zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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1888
Buffon. In: Manuel général de l'instruction primaire : journal hebdomadaire des instituteurs. 55e année, tome 24, 1888. pp. 321-324.
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Buffon. In: Manuel général de l'instruction primaire : journal hebdomadaire des instituteurs. 55e année, tome 24, 1888. pp. 321-324.
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1978
It is a little surprising for me to be the first lecturer in a colloquium devoted to a science I know nothing about. As a historian, I am very little acquainted with the history of your science. Actually, the reason for my being here is not stereology; it is the celebration of a bicentennial, that of the Essai d’Arithmetique morale, first published by ...
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It is a little surprising for me to be the first lecturer in a colloquium devoted to a science I know nothing about. As a historian, I am very little acquainted with the history of your science. Actually, the reason for my being here is not stereology; it is the celebration of a bicentennial, that of the Essai d’Arithmetique morale, first published by ...
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