Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

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.

Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/05/1995
Pages: 451
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780691006444

About the Author
Lorraine Daston is a Director of the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin.