First links in the Markov chain
THIS ARTICLE FROM ISSUEFirst Links in the Markov Chain First Links in the Markov ChainBY BRIAN HAYESProbability and poetry were unlikely partners in the creation of a computational toolCOMPUTER MATHEMATICS STATISTICSOne hundred years ago the Russian mathematician A. A. Markov founded a new branch of probability theory by applying mathematics to poetry. Delving into the text of Alexander Pushkin’..