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The Doctrine of Chances: Or, a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play

The Doctrine of Chances: Or, a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play

Moivre, Abraham De
De Moivre, Abraham

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral MathematicsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 110806180X
ISBN13: 9781108061803
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 27 2013
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.59 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
A Huguenot exile in England, the French mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) formed friendships with such luminaries as Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. Making his living from private tuition, he became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and published papers on a range of topics. Probability theory had been pioneered by Pascal, Fermat and Huygens, with further development by the Bernoullis. Originally published in 1718, The Doctrine of Chances was the first English textbook on the new science and so influential that for a time the whole subject was known by the title of the work. Reissued here is the revised and expanded 1738 second edition which contains the remarkable discovery that when a coin is tossed many times, the binomial distribution may be approximated by the normal distribution. This version of the central limit theorem stands as one of de Moivre's most significant contributions to mathematics.

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