The Broken Stick Reconsidered Again

In his article in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 30 (2008), No. 3, pp. 43-49, Gerald S. Goodman analyzes the genesis of the concept "uniform distribution"--or more generally "at random"--within the framework of geometric probability. For that he uses the example of the &quo...

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Published inThe Mathematical intelligencer Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 8 - 9
Main Author Schupp, Hans
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer-Verlag 01.03.2010
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Geometry
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical and Computational Engineering
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Mathematical Methods in Physics
Mathematical problems
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Numerical and Computational Physics
Simulation
Theoretical
Multiple Integral
Geometric Probability
Dimensional Simplex
Mathematical Intelligencer
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Summary:In his article in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 30 (2008), No. 3, pp. 43-49, Gerald S. Goodman analyzes the genesis of the concept "uniform distribution"--or more generally "at random"--within the framework of geometric probability. For that he uses the example of the "broken stick." Here, Schupp concurs with Goodman's analysis, but he points out that the history of this famous problem is a bit more complex than sketched.
ISSN:0343-6993
1866-7414
DOI:10.1007/s00283-009-9109-z