Classical Probability in the Enlightenment(English, Paperback, Daston Lorraine)

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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment(English, Paperback, Daston Lorraine) is written by Daston Lorraine and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 069100644X (ISBN 10) and 9780691006444 (ISBN 13).

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.