Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
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- Synopsis
- What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 451 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781400844227
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780691084978, 9780691006444
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/11/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Princeton University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.