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The Doctrine of Chances
Or, a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play

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  • Date Published: June 2013
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108061803
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  • A Huguenot exile in England, the French mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) formed friendships with such luminaries as Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. Making his living from private tuition, he became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and published papers on a range of topics. Probability theory had been pioneered by Pascal, Fermat and Huygens, with further development by the Bernoullis. Originally published in 1718, The Doctrine of Chances was the first English textbook on the new science and so influential that for a time the whole subject was known by the title of the work. Reissued here is the revised and expanded 1738 second edition which contains the remarkable discovery that when a coin is tossed many times, the binomial distribution may be approximated by the normal distribution. This version of the central limit theorem stands as one of de Moivre's most significant contributions to mathematics.

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    • Date Published: June 2013
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108061803
    • length: 280 pages
    • dimensions: 254 x 178 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.49kg
    • contains: 6 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Dedication
    Preface
    Advertisement to the second edition
    Introduction
    Solutions of several sorts of problems.

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    Abraham de Moivre

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