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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment [EPUB ebook]

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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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Lorraine Daston is a Director of the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 451 ● ISBN 9781400844227 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7745050 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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