Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

von Lorraine Daston

448 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780691006444
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.1995
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Princeton University Press