Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
Author | : Lorraine Daston |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781400844227 |
ISBN-13 | : 1400844223 |
Rating | : 4/5 (223 Downloads) |
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.