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Probability and Statistical Inference in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature

Probability and Statistical Inference in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature

Rabinovitch, Nachum L.

Paperback

Series: Heritage

JudaismProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 1487585241
ISBN13: 9781487585242
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1973
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book throws new light on the origins of probability and statistics. Heretofore these were thought to be entirely the creation of recent centuries, but it is demonstrated here that probability has a much longer history, reaching back to biblical times. Study of the Talmudic sources, with frequent reference to selected commentaries, as well as post-Talmudic sources, reveals that such reasoning was used by Talmudic rabbis from the first centuries of the Christian era in dealing with juridical problems. The Talmudic rabbis even formulated the rudimentary rules of the arithmetic of probabilities and later also the mathematical theory of combinations and permutations. It is shown that almost all the conceptions of probability which are entertained today, as well as some of the enigmas which beset contemporary philosophers of probability and induction, are described in the rabbinic writings.

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