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  2. Bertrand's postulate - Wikipedia

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    His conjecture was completely proved by Chebyshev (1821–1894) in 1852 [3] and so the postulate is also called the Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem or Chebyshev's theorem. Chebyshev's theorem can also be stated as a relationship with π ( x ) {\displaystyle \pi (x)} , the prime-counting function (number of primes less than or equal to x ...

  3. Proof of Bertrand's postulate - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Bertrand's postulate (now a theorem) states that, for each , there is a prime such that < <.First conjectured in 1845 by Joseph Bertrand, [1] it was first proven by Chebyshev, and a shorter but also advanced proof was given by Ramanujan.

  4. Chebyshev's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Chebyshev's sum inequality, about sums and products of decreasing sequences Chebyshev's equioscillation theorem , on the approximation of continuous functions with polynomials The statement that if the function π ( x ) ln ⁡ x / x {\textstyle \pi (x)\ln x/x} has a limit at infinity, then the limit is 1 (where π is the prime-counting function).

  5. Method of moments (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    The method of moments was introduced by Pafnuty Chebyshev for proving the central limit theorem; Chebyshev cited earlier contributions by Irénée-Jules Bienaymé. [2] More recently, it has been applied by Eugene Wigner to prove Wigner's semicircle law, and has since found numerous applications in the theory of random matrices. [3]

  6. Chebyshev's inequality - Wikipedia

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    The rule is often called Chebyshev's theorem, about the range of standard deviations around the mean, in statistics. The inequality has great utility because it can be applied to any probability distribution in which the mean and variance are defined. For example, it can be used to prove the weak law of large numbers.

  7. Chebyshev's sum inequality - Wikipedia

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    Consider the sum = = = (). The two sequences are non-increasing, therefore a j − a k and b j − b k have the same sign for any j, k.Hence S ≥ 0.. Opening the brackets, we deduce:

  8. Law of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    This theorem makes rigorous the intuitive notion of probability as the expected long-run relative frequency of an event's occurrence. It is a special case of any of several more general laws of large numbers in probability theory. Chebyshev's inequality. Let X be a random variable with finite expected value μ and finite non-zero variance σ 2.

  9. Talk:Chebyshev's inequality - Wikipedia

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    Chebyshev's inequality (also known as Tchebysheff's inequality, Chebyshev's theorem, or the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality) is a theorem of probability theory. Simply put, it states that in any data sample, nearly all the values are close to the mean value , and provides a quantitiative description of "nearly all" and "close to".