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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Valley of the tough-talking dolls
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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:45:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct13.025232.21851@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- >"Gauss, the gray-eyed, rougishly handsome mathematical
- >physicist, showed that a sum of independent identically distributed
- >random variables converges to the distribution that bears his name."
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- Okay, just so nobody gets confused, Guass did not really prove the
- central limit theorem. He was also not (as far as I know) rougishly
- handsome or grey-eyed.
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