| History of Probability Statistics P Contributor(s): Hald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0471471291 ISBN-13: 9780471471295 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $177.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. From the Reviews of History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 "This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Mathematics | History & Philosophy |
| Dewey: 519.209 |
| Series: Wiley Probability and Statistics |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.4" (1.73 lbs) 612 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Evoking the life and works of the great natural philosophers who contributed to the development of probability theory and statistics, this bestseller--now available in paperback--also describes the contemporaneous development and interaction of probability theory (and games of chance), statistics (particularly in astronomy and demography), and life insurance mathematics. To read and enjoy this intellectual history, you need know but little statistics or mathematics. |