probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have a...

English translation of Buffon's Natural History Preface for a 1792 English translation of Buffon's Natural History Buffon's needle Rejection sampling Scientific...

the problem of Buffon's noodle is a variation on the well-known problem of Buffon's needle, named after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon who lived...

problems using probabilistic metaheuristics (see simulated annealing). An early variant of the Monte Carlo method was devised to solve the Buffon's needle...

edition) Van der Waerden's conjecture Littlewood–Offord lemma Buffon's needle problem Sperner's theorem, Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem and Hall's theorem...

n} is the number of intersections. This paper, an experiment on Buffon's needle problem, is a very early documented use of random sampling (which Nicholas...

paradox (probability) Bonnesen's inequality Brahmagupta's formula Buffon's needle problem Bundle theorem Butterfly theorem Carnot's theorem Casey's theorem...

used for wine barrels). 1733 – The French naturalist Comte de Buffon poses his needle problem. Euler comes up with a simple numerical method for integrands...

Buffon's needle Weisstein, Eric W. "Spijker's Lemma". MathWorld. Wegert, Elias; Trefethen, Lloyd N. (February 1994). "From the Buffon Needle Problem to...

simulations—which themselves date back to the eighteenth century, in the Buffon's needle problem for example—but was popularized for statistical mechanics at Los...

the historically classical Buffon's Needle Problem (1733). One unsolved problem was: what is the probability that a needle randomly tossed onto a set...

curves. In this paper he also presented a solution to Buffon's needle problem, known as Buffon's noodle, that avoided the use of integrals. He began teaching...

celebrated case is the problem of Buffon's needle: drop a needle on a floor made of planks and calculate the probability the needle lies across a crack....

Arithmetic–geometric mean Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula Basel problem Borwein's algorithm Buffon's needle Cadaeic Cadenza Chronology of computation of π Circle...

general topic became known as geometric probability. (Buffon's needle) What is the chance that a needle dropped randomly onto a floor marked with equally...

to study the laws of probability, Wolf performed a Buffon's needle experiment, dropping a needle on a plate 5000 times to verify the value of π, a precursor...

Press, p. 177 Wegert, Elias; Trefethen, Lloyd N. (1994). "From the Buffon Needle Problem to the Kreiss Matrix Theorem". The American Mathematical Monthly...

x. ISSN 0004-5608. JSTOR 2563023. Rogerson, Peter A. (July 1990). "Buffon's needle and the estimation of migration distances". Mathematical Population...

cut-the-knot. Sylvester, J. J. (1890), "On a funicular solution of Buffon's "problem of the needle" in its most general form", Acta Mathematica, 14 (1): 185–205...

trials, can be used to create approximations of π. Buffon's needle is one such technique: If a needle of length ℓ is dropped n times on a surface on which...

Donsker's theorem Empirical process Wiener equation Wiener sausage Buffon's needle Integral geometry Hadwiger's theorem Wendel's theorem Luck Game of...

naturalist Buffon, and a question he asked about the results of dropping a needle randomly on a striped floor or table. See Buffon's needle. Sources Marco...

Jones, Peter W.; Murai, Takafumi. "Positive analytic capacity but zero Buffon needle probability" (PDF). Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 133 (1): 99–114...

"needle/noodle problem". Many mathematicians and other famous people are mentioned in this chapter, including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,...

algorithm, which was used by John von Neumann and dates back to Buffon and his needle, obtains a sample from distribution X {\displaystyle X} with density...

three-dimensional slabs (e.g. 3D microscope images), one-dimensional probes (e.g. needle biopsy), projected images, and other kinds of 'sampling'. It is especially...

there is no evidence that the name came through French, instead supporting Buffon's etymology; namely, that the word comes from the Dutch secretaris "secretary"...

Colby Granger Mathematics used: Scatterplot, Bayesian Spam Filtering, Buffon's needle and Conditional Probability 15 2 "Better or Worse" J. Miller Tobin...

proboscidean and have it used as support for Jefferson's final rebuttals against Buffon's arguments for supposed inferiority of American faunas. Author Keith Stewart...

Charles, recalled Buffon's suggestion, leaving Fresnel embarrassed for having again "broken through an open door". But, whereas Buffon's version was biconvex...