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Connecting Seminearrings to Probability Generating Functions

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Near-Rings and Near-Fields

Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 336))

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Are seminearrings important to other areas of mathematics? The purpose of this paper is to show an example of an application in the theory of probability.

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  1. Math. Department, Boston University, Charles River Campus, 02215, Boston, Mass., USA

    Donald W. Blackett

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  1. Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yuen Fong

  2. Department of Mathematics, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada

    Howard E. Bell

  3. Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Wen-Fong Ke

  4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    Gordon Mason

  5. Institute for Mathematics, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

    Günter Pilz

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Blackett, D.W. (1995). Connecting Seminearrings to Probability Generating Functions. In: Fong, Y., Bell, H.E., Ke, WF., Mason, G., Pilz, G. (eds) Near-Rings and Near-Fields. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 336. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0359-6_8

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