From: Ross Street <street@ics.mq.edu.au>
To: "David Espinosa" <david@davidespinosa.net>,
"Categories" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Axioms of elementary probability
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:53:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1M3r4j-00020J-TM@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
A couple of years ago, Voevodsky gave an interesting talk at the
Australian Math Soc
Annual Meeting (at RMIT. Melbourne) about a categorical approach to
probability theory.
Google told me about:
http://www.math.miami.edu/anno/voevodsky.htm
and
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/02/
category_theoretic_probability_1.html
Ross
On 09/05/2009, at 4:02 PM, David Espinosa wrote:
> Here's a question about elementary (naive, finitist) probability.
> The proper, self-dual axioms for elementary probability are presumably
>
> P(0) = 0
> P(X) = 1
> P(A u B) + P(A n B) = P(A) + P(B)
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