Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

Lorraine Daston

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Princeton University Press
Año de edición:
1995
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Historia de la ciencia
ISBN:
9780691006444
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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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