| Title | : | Classical Probability in the Enlightenment |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Lorraine Daston |
| Release | : | 2021-05-11 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Science History, Books, Science & Nature |
| Size | : | 3503955 |
| What did it mean to be reasonable 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. |
