St. Petersburg paradox
paradox involving a game with repeated coin flipping
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Summary
St. Petersburg paradox is a paradox[1]. It draws 596 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #14 of 104).[2]
Key Facts
- St. Petersburg paradox is credited with the discovery of Daniel Bernoulli[3].
- St. Petersburg paradox's instance of is recorded as paradox[4].
- St. Petersburg paradox's instance of is recorded as mathematical concept[5].
- Saint Petersburg is named after St. Petersburg paradox[6].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02cx9v[7].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/St-Petersburg-paradox[8].
- St. Petersburg paradox's defining formula is recorded as \begin{aligned}E&={\frac {1}{2}}\cdot 2+{\frac {1}{4}}\cdot 4+{\frac {1}{8}}\cdot 8+{\frac {1}{16}}\cdot 16+\cdots \&=1+1+1+1+\cdots \&=\infty\end{aligned}[9].
- St. Petersburg paradox's MathWorld ID is recorded as SaintPetersburgParadox[10].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as paradox-stpetersburg[11].
- St. Petersburg paradox's PhilPapers topic is recorded as st-petersburg-paradox[12].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Quora topic ID is recorded as St-Petersburg-Paradox[13].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["FamousMathProblem", "SaintPetersburgParadox"][14].
- St. Petersburg paradox's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[15].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776758771[16].
- St. Petersburg paradox's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as sankt-peterburgskii-paradoks-3719c8[17].
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Works and Contributions
St. Petersburg paradox is credited with the discovery of Daniel Bernoulli[3].
Why It Matters
St. Petersburg paradox draws 596 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #14 of 104).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]