A conjecture in geometric probability about the asymptotic normality of the r-content of the r-simplex, whose r + 1 vertices are independently uniformly distributed random points of which p are in the ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...

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Concepts covered in this course include: standard functions and their graphs, limits, continuity, tangents, derivatives, the definite integral, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Formulas for ...

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