benorin
- Location
- Knowhere
- Education in Progress
- Not in school
- Educational Background
- Undergrad
- University
- UCSB. Ventura College
- Occupation
- Retired student
- Published Papers
- Favorite Area of Science
- Special Functions, Infinite products, Classical Analysis, love a good physics problem
- Favorite Books
- Special Functions by Askey, Andrews, & Roy; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow; Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus by Murray Spiegel
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This passage is from the book "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" by Leonard Mlodinow, pg. 174, "[...]The point was rather starkly illustrated by mathematician George Spencer-Brown, who wrote that in a random series of 10^1,000,007 zeroes and ones, you should expect at least 10 nonoverlapping subsequences of 1 million consecutive zeroes." And the citation is George Spencer-Brown, Probability and Scientific Inference (London: Longmans, Green, 1957), pp. 55-56. Actually, 10 is a gross underestimate.
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