Category: History of Mathematics
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Misconceptions About P Values and The History of Hypothesis Testing
1. Introduction The misconceptions surrounding p values are an example where knowing the history of the field and the mathematical and philosophical principles behind it can greatly help in understanding. The classical statistical testing of today is a hybrid of the approaches taken by R. A. Fisher on the one hand and Jerzy Neyman and…
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The Development of Mathematical Analysis
1. Reasons Behind The Creation of Analysis Newton had approached his calculus with fluxions and flows while Leibniz had done with differentials. Both methods however had to deal with infinities and infinitely small quantities, specifically to find methods that combine infintely many infinitely small quantities to get finite quantities. The reasoning used to arrive at…