Abraham De Moivre
Abraham De Moivre

Author: David R. Bellhouse

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-10-19

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1439865787

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Extensively researched, this book traces the life and work of Abraham De Moivre as well as the state of probability and statistics in eighteenth-century Britain. It is the first extensive biography of De Moivre and is based on recently discovered material and translations, including some of De Moivre's letters.The book begins with discussions on De

The Art of Conjecturing, Together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis
The Art of Conjecturing, Together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis

Author: Jacob Bernoulli

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780801882357

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"Part I reprints and reworks Huygens's On Reckoning in Games of Chance. Part II offers a thorough treatment of the mathematics of combinations and permutations, including the numbers since known as "Bernoulli numbers." In Part III, Bernoulli solves more complicated problems of games of chance using that mathematics. In the final part, Bernoulli's crowning achievement in mathematical probability becomes manifest he applies the mathematics of games of chance to the problems of epistemic probability in civil, moral, and economic matters, proving what we now know as the weak law of large numbers."

The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776
The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776

Author: Geoffrey Poitras

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser University) provides an account of the early development of financial economics and presents a foundation for the study of modern financial economics. The book chronicles the development of early financial economics, from the appearance of the first printed commercial arithmetic in 1478 to the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. The origins of the subject are traced back to the commercial arithmetic of the Renaissance reckoning schools. The contributions of de Moivre, Halley, and Stevin are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Games, Gods, and Gambling
Games, Gods, and Gambling

Author: Florence Nightingale David

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780486400235

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Episodes from the lives of Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, and others illustrate this fascinating account of the roots of mathematics. Features thought-provoking references to classics, archaeology, biography, poetry. 1962 edition.

Statisticians of the Centuries
Statisticians of the Centuries

Author: C.C. Heyde

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1461301793

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Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.