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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Emanuele Sgherri wrote:
> I'm looking for literature about probability in Aristotle. Could you help
> me with suggestions
> and information?
> Thank you very much
There is a book by, I believe ??? Bernstein just published with a title
something like
   Against the Gods:  A history of risk
which provides an intellectual history of probability.  I skimmed it a
couple of months ago.  I believe there was a brief section on Aristotle,
and there would be references.
I'm sure that there are better sources, but this might be one place to
start.
-j
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Hi,
a friend of mine is actually writing a brief story. Some days ago he asked
to me for some hints about one of the main characters of his story, a
supposedly well known matematical and computer genius.
I don't know exactly which is the story's context, but somewhere in the
story the genius comes out stating a definition of 'fractals' which comes
out to be a pearl of humanistic wishdom being able to touch someone other's
feelings.
Since I really dislike stories pretending to be 'scientific' while abusing
and distorcing the meaning of every matter they speak about, I also
preferred to give a matematically correct definition.
I thinked a lot about it. I also searched many stuff regarding fractals
throught the web. Well, since I'm not a genius nor even a matematician, I
am still unable to give an answer to my friend...
Would anybody out there like to engage this challenge? Even someone other's
statements are accepted, provided you can cite the source.
By the way, I don't believe there will be any prize or award for your
suggestions, but we would appreciate every hint from you.
Thank you very much,
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