Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

von Lorraine Daston

456 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat 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 arguments, charting the development and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
• ISBN: 9780691248509
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2023
• Größe: 232 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Princeton University Press