To almost everyone this would seem a ridiculous question. Even to most mathematicians the existence of Pi (defined here as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter) is taken for granted. But the question of the existence of the class of number to
Over this winter vacation, I’ve been intellectually focused on some background mathematics supporting my work in detection. One of my projects is reading through a rather introductory text on probability by Athanasios Papoulis (1965). I’ve found the opening sections of this book very philosophically relevant,
One of the most fundamental principles within mathematics is randomness. The study of random processes is the direct subject matter of probability and statistics, from which a broad assortment of additional fields arise, including game theory, and the theory of stochastic processes. Applied mathematics is