Daston, Lorraine
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691006444
- author:
- Daston, Lorraine
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1995
- Pages:
- 451
- Genre:
- Science Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Classical probability in the Age of Reason was a quest for rationality. Mathematicians such as Jakob Bernoulli and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to distill good sense into a calculable framework.
Lorraine Daston explores how this approach influenced the development of probability theory, revealing its applications and inner workings.
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