Probability theory: a historical sketch

by Maĭstrov, L. E., (Leonid Efimovich)

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

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Publication Date:1974.

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

Notes

Translation of: Teorii︠a︡ veroi︠a︡tnosteĭ.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 281 pages : illustrations : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0124657508, 9780124657502
oclc:ocm00722855
LC Classification:QA273.A4
Dewey Decimal:519.2/09

Prehistory of probability theory : Basic stimuli in the rise of probability theory ; The role of gambling in the rise of probability theory ; The first problems ; Cardano and Tartaglia ; Elements of probability theory in Galileo’s works ; Basic stages in the development of combinatorics -- The first stage in the development of probability theory : De Mére’s legend ; Letters between Fermat and Pascal ; Contribution of Huygens to probability theory -- The development of probability theory to the middle of the nineteenth century : James Bernoulli and his treatise “Ars Conjectandi” ; The development of probability theory in the first half of the eighteenth century ; Simpson’s contributions to probability theory ; Thomas Bayes and his theorem ; Euler’s and Daniel Bernoulli’s contributions ; G.L. Buffon ; Opposition from d’Alembert ; Jean Antoine de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet ; Laplace and his contributions to probability theory ; Distribution of random errors ; The state of probability theory in Europe prior to the advent of the Russian (St. Petersburg) school ; Probability theory in Russian prior to the advent of the St. Petersburg school -- Probability theory in the second half of…