Abraham De Moivre [electronic resource] : setting the stage for classical probability and its applications / David R. Bellhouse.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2011.Description: 266 p. : illISBN:- 9781439865781 (ebook : PDF)
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"An A K Peters book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
Early Life in France -- Points of Connection -- Getting Established in England -- Scotica Mathematica -- The Breakthrough : De Mensura Sortis -- A Newtonian Intermezzo -- Miscellanea Mathematica -- The Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine Disputed -- Doctrinal Dissemination and Further Development -- De Moivre as Teacher -- Life Annuities -- The Decade of the Doctrine Enhanced -- The Two Thomases -- Old Age.
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