Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

This text demonstrates how the view of the classical probabilists that reasonability was "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to calculus" profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.

"Daston's book is great fun to read because of its variety of well-chosen topics, thoughtfully interpreted and presented in wonderfully rich language. She . . . displays an impressive independence from conventional approaches to [the history of probability]."---Ivo Schneider, American Historical Review

Autorentext
Lorraine Daston

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? This title demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.

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