CLASSICAL PROBABILITY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Lorraine J. Daston ( 9780691006444 )

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Title:

CLASSICAL PROBABILITY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT

By:

Lorraine J. Daston

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069100644X

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9780691006444

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 October, 1995

Pages:

451

Description:

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? This title demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.

Synopsis:

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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Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award of the History of Science

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