Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Author)
Zabell, Sandy L. (Author)
The article Problem of two races, which appeared in 1934 in French and Russian in the Matematichesky Sbornik (Moscow), authored by the noted applied mathematician and statistician Richard von Mises (1883--1953), is interpreted as having a twofold agenda. On its surface it is merely a detailed mathematical analysis of the statistical problem of comparing the distributions of a quantitative characteristic in two different classes. But on closer examination it serves two auxiliary purposes. On the one hand, von Mises, who as a Jew fled Nazi Germany in 1933, satirically attacked Nazi racial doctrines by resorting to statistical parody. On the other hand, von Mises employed his theoretical results to further his own distinctive program of objective Bayesian statistics.
...MoreDescription On Mises's satirical attack on Nazi racial doctrines using statistics as well as his Bayesianism.
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2010)
Sets versus Trial Sequences, Hausdorff versus Von Mises: “Pure” Mathematics Prevails in the Foundations of Probability around 1920
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Sheynin, Oscar;
(2003)
Mises on Mathematics in Nazi Germany
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2008)
Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik und die Lage jüdischer Mathematiker: Thesen und Dokumente zu einem wenig erforschten Thema
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Steinweis, Alan E.;
(2006)
Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
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Ehret, Ulrike;
(2010)
Catholicism and Judaism in the Catholic Defence against Alfred Rosenberg, 1934--1938: Anti-Jewish Images in an Age of Race Science
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2004)
Mathematicians Forced to Philosophize: An Introduction to Khinchin's Paper on von Mises' Theory of Probability
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Bienvenu, Laurent;
Shafer, Glenn;
Shen, Alexander;
(2009)
On the History of Martingales in the Study of Randomness
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Stöltzner, Michael;
(2003)
Vienna Indeterminism II: From Exner's Synthesis to Frank and von Mises
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Duello, Theresa M.;
(2010)
Misconceptions of “Race” as a Biological Category: Then and Now
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2006)
Probability in 1919/20: The von Mises-Pólya Controversy
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Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard;
(2007)
Philipp Frank, Richard von Mises, and the Frank-Mises
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Book
Ross, Chad;
(2005)
Naked Germany: Health, Race and the Nation
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Galavotti, Maria Carla;
(2008)
A Tribute to Janina Hosiasson Lindenbaum, a Philosopher Victim of the Holocaust
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Hoßfeld, Uwe;
(2003)
Von der Rassenkunde, Rassenhygiene und biologischen Erbstatistik zur Synthetischen Theorie der Evolution: Eine Skizze der Biowissenschaften
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Evans, Andrew D.;
(2010)
Anthropology at War: World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
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Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt;
(2018)
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950
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Morris-Reich, Amos;
(2006)
Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race
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Anderson, Warwick;
(2012)
Hybridity, Race, and Science: The Voyage of the Zaca, 1934--1935
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Heinemann, Isabel;
(2003)
Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut: Das Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS und die rassenpolitische Neuordnung Europas
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Turda, Marius;
Weindling, Paul;
(2007)
“Blood and Homeland”: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900--1940
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