Seminarium
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Statistiskt seminarium

Jeffrey Steif, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg: Is your coin rational?

Översikt

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  • Datum:Startar 3 September 2025, 13:15Slutar 3 September 2025, 14:00
  • Plats:
    MV:L14, Chalmers tvärgata 3
  • Språk:Engelska

Abstrakt finns enbart på engelska: One tosses a coin with an unknown parameter p a large number of times and then you have to guess whether p is rational or irrational. Can you do it? The answer is related to various things such as the so-called Baire Category Theorem as well as well-approximability of irrationals by rationals in elementary number theory.

Ottmar Cronie
  • Universitetslektor*, Tillämpad matematik och statistik, Matematiska vetenskaper