Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine Daston

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

Lorraine Daston

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nonfiction history mathematics philosophy science
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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, i...

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