A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 / Anders Hald
Type de document : MonographieCollection : Wiley series in probability and statisticsLangue : anglais.Pays: Etats Unis.Éditeur : New Jersey : Wiley-Interscience, 2003Description : 1 vol. (XIII-586 p.) ; 23 cmISBN: 0471471291.ISSN: 1940-6517.Bibliographie : Bibliogr. p. 549-570. Index.Sujet MSC : 01A05, History of mathematics and mathematicians, General histories, source books60-03, History of probability theory
62-03, History of statistics
01-02, Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biographyEn-ligne : Sommaire
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As the author himself says on page 4 a fuller title of the book would be “A history of probability theory and statistics and their applications to games of chance, astronomy, demography, and life insurance before 1750, with some comments on later developments”. Its main aim is to deal with these aspects of history: with problems, methods and with persons. Being not a historian of science but a retired professor of statistics the author relied on secondary literature whenever he touched really historical or nonmathematical issues like evaluations, dates, biographical and bibliographical details. (Zentralblatt)
Bibliogr. p. 549-570. Index
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