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Ergodicity — Ole Peters

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Invention of the Expected Value

Cardano was probably the first t to write them down, although his book wasn't published until long after his death. There's also a paper by galileo, i think, well, it's somewhere between, maybe it's from 16 23, or in the decade before that. So hevery explicitly counts the possible ways of throwing different dies. How many ways are there of throwing a tenda, something like that. These ideas were er, they were in the air.

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