| Classical Probability in the Enlightenment Revised Edition Contributor(s): Daston, Lorraine (Author) |
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ISBN: 069100644X ISBN-13: 9780691006444 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $59.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1995 Annotation: What did it mean to be resonable 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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| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | History & Philosophy - Science | History - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 519.209 |
| LCCN: 88009869 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.12" W x 9.25" (1.36 lbs) 448 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |