Carlo Emilio Bonferroni(28 January 1892 18

August 1960)

was anItalianmathematicianwho worked on

probability theory.
Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born inBergamoon 28 January
1892 and died on 18 August 1960 inFlorence.
He studied inTurin, held a post as assistant professor at the
Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial
mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari.
In 1933 he transferred to Florence where he held his chair
until his death.
Bonferroni is best known for theBonferroni inequalities(a
generalization of theunion bound) and theBonferroni
correctionin statistics.
However, although his inequalities can be used to derive
the Bonferroni correction, the correction itself was first
published byOlive Jean Dunn

Trivia
* The rationals are countable
That means they can be put into 1-1
correspondence with the counting numbers 1, 2, 3...
The irrationals are uncountable -- they can NOT be
put into 1-1 correspondence with the counting
numbers.
* The rationals have measure zero. That means that
the "probability" of randomly choosing a rational
from the reals is zero.

Lesson 14:More Problems

Involving Real Numbers
Pre-requisite Concepts:Whole
numbers,Integers,Rational
numbers,Real numbers ,and
Sets

About the Lesson:

This is the culminating lesson on real
numbers. It combines all the
concepts and skill learned in the past
lesson on real numbers

Real Numbers:
It includes:
Whole Numbers(like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
etc)
Rational Numbers(like 3/4, 0.125,
0.333..., 1.1, etc )
Irrational Numbers(like, 2, etc )
Real Numbers can also
bepositive,negativeorzero.

The Real Number Line

The Real Number Line is like a

geometricline.
A point is chosen on the line to be
the"origin". Points to the right are
positive, and points to the left are
negative.
A distance is chosen to be "1", then whole numbers
are marked off: {1,2,3,...}, and also in the negative
direction: {...,3,2,1}

 Rational Numbers-- in other words all integers ,

fractions and decimals (including repeating decimals)
Examples:
2
5

1.5
0.34
0.73
Anirrational numbercannot be expressed as a ratio
between two numbers and it cannot be written as a
simple fraction because there is not a finite number
of numbers when written as a decimal.
Examples:
Pi (3.14) , the square root of 2

 Use various strategies and operations to solve

problems involving real numbers.
Using alternative representations of rational numbers
(models, drawings, grids, graphs)
Applying GCF, LCM, and prime and composite
numbers, including justification for the reasonableness
of results, when working with rational numbers
Applying proportional reasoning
Using vocabulary associated with sets,
includingunionandintersection
Determining whether a number is rational or irrational
Demonstrating computational fluency with operations
on rational numbers

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Quiz

Summary