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This chapter recapitulates basic mathematical tools needed in the semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus, in particular, from the fields of probability theory, Markov chains, graph theory and domain theory. Also, it delves into the topic of inductive definitions.
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Draheim, D. (2017). Preliminary Mathematics. In: Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55198-7_2
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