The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal

James Franklin

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal

James Franklin

497 pages hardcover 2001

4 editions

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Before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654, how did we make reliable predictions? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not atta...

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