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Paperback Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition Book

ISBN: 0691248508

ISBN13: 9780691248509

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

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An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical...

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