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Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Vol. 13) - Hardcover
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.
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This philosophical Essay is an expanded version of a lecture on probability the author gave in 1795 at the Ecoles Normales, whither he had been called a professor of mathematics with Lagrange by decree of the National Convention.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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- PublisherSpringer-Verlag
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 3540943498
- ISBN 13 9783540943495
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
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