:setting the stage for classical probability and its applications
First Statement of Responsibility
/ David R. Bellhouse
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boca Raton, FL
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: CRC Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
266 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill.
Dimensions
; 24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
(An A K Peters book.)
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"An A K Peters book."
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
SERIES
Title
A K Peters book
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
510
.
92
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA29
Book number
.
M5237
,
B45
2011
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Bellhouse, D. R
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Abraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and Its Applications