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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

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 | #2102659 in Books |  1995-10-16 |  1995-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.13 x6.00l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 451 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| How are ancestors thought about chance|By Charles E. Nydorf|The word 'page-turner' doesn't automatically come to mind when the subject is the history of some branch of mathematics, particularly if you are, like me, not a mathematician. Yet I found Lorraine Daston's book compulsively readable. She covers a period from about 1650 and 1840 when the basic principles and applicati| |Winner of the 1989 Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award of the History of Science Society

"The reader feels like a twentieth-century observer set down to eavesdrop on erudite philosophical arguments on miracles and the problem of induction, and

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.

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