Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248509ISBN-10:691248508UPC:9780691248509Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:History, History & Philosophy, Probability & StatisticsSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.4Product ID:SCFFXWADK0
An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality
What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical arguments, charting the development and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248509ISBN-10:691248508UPC:9780691248509Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:History, History & Philosophy, Probability & StatisticsSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.4Product ID:SCFFXWADK0
Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (Princeton).
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