#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 7 of Dr. Z.'s Math336 Rutgers University


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NAME: Timothy Nasralla




LIST ALL THE ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS FOLLOWED BY THEIR ANSWERS


Question 1: Who made up the name “Monte Carlo method”?
Answer: John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam, and Nicholas Metropolis


Question 2: Who named the Bernoulli’s random variable?
Answer: Jacob Bernoulli


Question 3: What is an interesting application to biology of gamblers ruin?
Answer: Gamblers ruin describes how with a negative expected value of success in a game of gambling, you will eventually go broke and that could be applied to the idea of genetic traits that are heritable being lost because they are less advantageous and therefore unlikely to be kept in evolution and are eventually lost.