Classical probability in the Enlightenment
(2021)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Princeton University Press, 2021
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781400844227 MWT15910133, 1400844223 15910133
LANGUAGE
English
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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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