Pathways to probability : history of the mathematics of certainty and chance / 6
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Amy C. King, Cecil B. Read.
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- 139 pages : illustrations, portraits., diagrams. 22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index
Are the odds against you? -- Early glimpses -- Arrangements and combinations -- The dabbler and the antagonist -- The odds of life -- The Brothers Bernoulli -- Calculating the risk -- Mr. Euler and his contemporaries -- Buffon and Bayes -- Lagrange, Laplace, and later -- Present patterns -- A child of probability -- Applying probability.