论文标题
在J. V. Uspensky的赞美(和搜索)中
In praise (and search) of J. V. Uspensky
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论文摘要
我们两个人对詹姆斯·维克多·乌斯彭斯基(James Victor Uspensky)的1937年教科书$ positded \,to \ to \ to \ to,自从我们的研究生时代开始的概率$都很着迷:它包含了许多在英语中的其他书籍中没有发现的许多有趣的结果,以及许多非琐事的例子,以及许多非琐事的例子,都清楚地表明了仔细的证明。我们向现代观众展示了一些Uspensky的宝石,希望诱使其他人自己阅读Uspensky,并报告他也写过的其他一些数学主题(例如,他关于数字理论的书都包含有关完美休假的早期结果)。 乌斯彭斯基(Uspensky)过着有趣的生活:俄罗斯科学院的成员,他在1924年多伦多国际数学家国际大会上讲话,然后于1929年离开俄罗斯,来到美国和斯坦福大学。用英语写的几乎没有关于他的文章。本文的后半部分试图解决这个问题。
The two of us have shared a fascination with James Victor Uspensky's 1937 textbook $Introduction \, to \, Mathematical \, Probability$ ever since our graduate student days: it contains many interesting results not found in other books on the same subject in the English language, together with many non-trivial examples, all clearly stated with careful proofs. We present some of Uspensky's gems to a modern audience hoping to tempt others to read Uspensky for themselves, as well as report on a few of the other mathematical topics he also wrote about (for example, his book on number theory contains early results about perfect shuffles). Uspensky led an interesting life: a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he spoke at the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto before leaving Russia in 1929 and coming to the US and Stanford. Comparatively little has been written about him in English; the second half of this paper attempts to remedy this.