Probability theory: a historical sketch

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Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch covers the probability theory, mainly axiomatization problems. The book discusses the prehistory of the probability theory; the first stage in the development of probability theory; and the development of probability theory to the middle of the 19th century. The text also describes the probability theory in the second half of the 19th century; and the axiomatic foundations of the probability theory. Historians and mathematicians will find the book invalua…

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Full title :Probability theory : a historical sketch / L.E. Maistrov ; translated and edited by Samuel Kotz.

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Publication Date:©1974.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Academic Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1974.

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Translation of: Teorii︠a︡ veroi︠a︡tnosteĭ.

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Description:1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781483218632, 1483218635
oclc:ocn898771989
LC Classification:QA273.A4
Dewey Decimal:519.2/09

Front Cover; Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Translator's Preface; Author's Preface; Introduction; Chapter I. Prehistory of Probability Theory; 1 Basic stimuli in the rise of probability theory; 2 The role of gambling in the rise of probability theory; 3 The first problems; 4 Cardano and Tartaglia; 5 Elements of probability theory in Galileo's works; 6 Basic stages in the development of combinatorics; Chapter II. The First Stage in the Development of Probability Theory; 1 De Mere's legend; 2 Letters between Fermat and Pascal.

3 Contributions of Huygens to probability theoryChapter III. The Development of Probability Theory to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; 1 James Bernoulli and his treatise Ars Conjectandi -- 2 The development of probability theory in the first half of the eighteenth century; 3 Simpson's contributions to probability theory; 4 Thomas Bayes and his theorem; 5 Euler's and Daniel Bernoulli's contributions; 6 G.L. Buffon; 7 Opposition from d'Alembert; 8 Jean Antoine de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet; 9 Laplace and his contributions to probability theory; 10 Distribution of random errors.

11 The state of prob…