Abraham De Moivre setting the stage for classical probability and its applications

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Author:

Bellhouse, D. R.

ISBN:

9781439865781

Publication Information:

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2011.

Physical Description:

266 p. : ill.

Contents:

Early Life in France -- Points of Connection -- Getting Established in England -- Scotica Mathematica -- The Breakthrough : De Mensura Sortis -- A Newtonian Intermezzo -- Miscellanea Mathematica -- The Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine Disputed -- Doctrinal Dissemination and Further Development -- De Moivre as Teacher -- Life Annuities -- The Decade of the Doctrine Enhanced -- The Two Thomases -- Old Age.

Personal Subject:

Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.

Subject Term:

Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Probabilities -- History -- 18th century.

Mathematics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.

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