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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Lorraine Daston is a Director of the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 451 ● ISBN 9781400844227 ● Taille du fichier 2.2 MB ● Maison d’édition Princeton University Press ● Lieu Princeton ● Pays US ● Publié 2021 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7745050 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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