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HISTORICAL QUEST The Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) was part of the famous Bernoulli family (see Historical Note in Section 8.3). In 1738 he published the book St. Petersburg Academy Proceedings in which the problem known as the St. Petersburg Paradox was first published. To understand this paradox, you must first work Problems
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