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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
Author: Lorraine Daston
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 demon...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691006444
ISBN-10: 069100644X
Publication Date: 10/16/1995
Pages: 451
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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