What did it mean to be resonable 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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rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
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評分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
評分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
評分作者說作為一本入門級概念史,我盡量少提數學...真的很貼心。
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載