Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

by Lorraine Daston

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069100644X

ISBN13:9780691006444

Release Date:October 1995

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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