Folklore Parallels and Coincidences

Remodified Bessel Functions via Coincidences and Near Coincidences

By considering a particular probabilistic scenario associated with coincidences, we are led to a family of functions akin to the modified Bessel function of the first kind. These are in turn solutions to a certain family of linear differential equations possessing structural similarities to the modified Bessel differential equation. The Stirling number triangle of the second kind arises quite n...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Causes , Coincidences , and Theories

Sequences , Patterns and Coincidences

This article provides a contemporary exposition at a moderately quantitative level of the distribution theory associated with sequences and patterns in iid multinomial trials, the birthday problem, and the matching problem. The section on patterns includes the classic distribution theory for waiting time for runs and more general patterns, and their means and moments. It also includes the centr...

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...