1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910268359903321

Autore

Giorgi, Giorgio

Titolo

Elementi di matematica parte 2 : funzioni e successioni numeriche, limiti, continuità / Giorgio Giorgi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Giappichelli, 2004

ISBN

8834844521

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 174 p. ; 24 cm

Locazione

MAS

Collocazione

MXXVII-A-320

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704145303321

Autore

Richardson G. B (George Burr), <1872-1949, >

Titolo

Geology and mineral resources of the Randolph quadrangle, Utah-Wyoming / / by G.B. Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1941

Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 54 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps (some color)

Collana

Bulletin / United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey ; ; 923

Soggetti

Geology - Utah

Geology - Wyoming

Mines and mineral resources - Utah

Mines and mineral resources - Wyoming

Geology

Mines and mineral resources

Utah

Wyoming



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed July 10, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910503154003321

Titolo

Detroit tribune

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Michigan : , : Peck's Printing & Advertising Service, , 1933-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

071

Soggetti

African Americans

Race relations

Newspapers.

United States Race relations Newspapers

Detroit (Mich.) Newspapers

Wayne County (Mich.) Newspapers

Michigan Detroit

Michigan Wayne County

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"Independent." Cf. Ayer, 1967.

"Leading Negro weekly of Michigan."



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808097903321

Autore

Campe Rüdiger

Titolo

The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8466-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Collana

Cultural Memory in the Present

Cultural memory in the present

Altri autori (Persone)

WigginsEllwood

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

European literature - 17th century - History and criticism

European literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Probability in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I.  Games for Example; 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air; 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal; 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens; 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf; 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli; 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz; 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival

Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies; 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg; 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction; 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon; 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics,and Experimentation-Lambert

13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography



Sommario/riassunto

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution,"" providing a history of the re