:setting the stage for classical probability and its applications
/ David R. Bellhouse
Boca Raton, FL
: CRC Press,
, c2011.
266 p.
: ill.
; 24 cm.
(An A K Peters book.)
"An A K Peters book."
Electronic
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
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.
A K Peters book
Moivre, Abraham de,--1667-1754
Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography
Probabilities--History--18th century
Mathematics--Great Britain--History--18th century
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Biographie
Moivre, Abraham ((de))--(DE-588c)4762097-3--swd
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QA29
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M5237
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B45
2011
Bellhouse, D. R
ایران
Abraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and Its Applications