Isaac Todhunter

A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability

From the Time of Pascal to That of Laplace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A thorough account of the roots and development of probability theory, published in 1865 by a distinguished Cambridge mathematician.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 646
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781108077644
• ISBN-10: 1108077641
• Artikelnr.: 41523961

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Cardan, Kepler, Galileo
2. Pascal and Fermat
3. Huygens
4. On combinations
5. Mortality and life insurance
6. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1670 and 1700
7. James Bernoulli
8. Montmort
9. De Moivre
10. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1700 and 1750
11. Daniel Bernoulli
12. Euler
13. D'Alembert
14. Bayes
15. Lagrange
16. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1750 and 1780
17. Condorcet
18. Trembley
19. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1780 and 1800
20. Laplace
Appendix
List of authors
Index.