Media Summary: The Chernoff Bounds. Flipping n fair coins and counting Heads minus Tails one naturally gets a limiting Gaussian distribution. This lecture was held at The University of Oslo, May 24, 2007 and was part of the Abel Prize Lectures in connection with the Abel ... By: Chris van den Broeck, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium - Date: 2014-09-11 15:00:00 - Description:
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The Chernoff Bounds. Flipping n fair coins and counting Heads minus Tails one naturally gets a limiting Gaussian distribution. This lecture was held at The University of Oslo, May 24, 2007 and was part of the Abel Prize Lectures in connection with the Abel ... By: Chris van den Broeck, Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium - Date: 2014-09-11 15:00:00 - Description: The twentieth century saw the elevation of Discrete Mathematics from ”the slums of topology” (one of the more polite expressions!) The tune is While We're Young by Alec Wilder and Morty Palitz, and the band is: Jeremy Kahn Piano Larry Gray Bass
