A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 / / Anders Hall

• Autore: Hald Anders <1913->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (611 pages)
• Disciplina: 519.2/09
• Soggetto topico: Mathematical statistics; Mathematical statistics - History - 17th century; Mathematical statistics - History - 18th century; Probabilities - History - 17th century; Probabilities - History - 18th century; Probabilities
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Nota di contenuto: A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750; Contents; 1 The Book and Its Relation to Other Works; 2 A Sketch of the Background in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; 3 Early Concepts of Probability and Chance; 4 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae, c. 1565; 5 The Foundation of Probability Theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654; 6 Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, 1657; 7 John Graunt and the Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, 1662; 8 The Probabilistic Interpretation of Graunt's Life Table; 9 The Early History of Life Insurance Mathematics;10 Mathematical Models and Statistical Methods in Astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo11 The Newtonian Revolution in Mathematics and Science; 12 Miscellaneous Contributions between 1657 and 1708; 13 The Great Leap Forward, 1708–1718: A Survey; 14 New Solutions to Old Problems, 1708–1718; 15 James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi, 1713; 16 Bernoulli's Theorem; 17 Tests of Significance Based on the Sex Ratio at Birth.
• Titolo autorizzato: History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750
• ISBN: 9780471725176; 047172517X; 9780471502302
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830966703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II