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2021
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Princeton University Press
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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," in Laplace's words. In terms
that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston
demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development
of probability theory and defined its applications.
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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," in Laplace's words. In terms
that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston
demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development
of probability theory and defined its applications.
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9781400844227
Published
2021
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Author