Author : David R. Bellhouse
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1439865787
Extensively researched, this book traces the life and work of Abraham De Moivre as well as the state of probability and statistics in eighteenth-century Britain. It is the first extensive biography of De Moivre and is based on recently discovered material and translations, including some of De Moivre's letters.The book begins with discussions on De
Author : Abraham de Moivre
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1756
Category : Annuities
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Author : Geoffrey Poitras
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser University) provides an account of the early development of financial economics and presents a foundation for the study of modern financial economics. The book chronicles the development of early financial economics, from the appearance of the first printed commercial arithmetic in 1478 to the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. The origins of the subject are traced back to the commercial arithmetic of the Renaissance reckoning schools. The contributions of de Moivre, Halley, and Stevin are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jacob Bernoulli
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780801882357
"Part I reprints and reworks Huygens's On Reckoning in Games of Chance. Part II offers a thorough treatment of the mathematics of combinations and permutations, including the numbers since known as "Bernoulli numbers." In Part III, Bernoulli solves more complicated problems of games of chance using that mathematics. In the final part, Bernoulli's crowning achievement in mathematical probability becomes manifest he applies the mathematics of games of chance to the problems of epistemic probability in civil, moral, and economic matters, proving what we now know as the weak law of large numbers."
Author : Charles Babbage
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Abbreviations
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Author : Abraham de Moivre
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1725
Category : Annuities
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Author : C.C. Heyde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461301793
Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.
Author : Florence Nightingale David
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486400235
Episodes from the lives of Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, and others illustrate this fascinating account of the roots of mathematics. Features thought-provoking references to classics, archaeology, biography, poetry. 1962 edition.
Author : Mark Kac
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486833402
This concise monograph by a well-known mathematician shows how probability theory, in its simplest form, arises in a variety of contexts and in many different mathematical disciplines. 1959 edition.
Author : Niccol- Guicciardini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521524841
This book examines how calculus developed in Britain during the century following Newton.
