This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Von Mises defined a "physical" probability as a strict limit of the relative frequency of occurrence of an event in repeated trials. As a ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

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