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Abraham De Moivre : setting the stage for classical probability and its applications
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Title
Abraham De Moivre : setting the stage for classical probability and its applications / David R. Bellhouse.
ISBN
9781568813493 (hardcover : alk. paper)
156881349X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"An A K Peters book."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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