Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9781400844227
ISBN-13 : 1400844223
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Book Synopsis Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by : Lorraine Daston

Download or read book Classical Probability in the Enlightenment written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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