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PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES
TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH FRENCH EDITION OF 1825 WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR |
| Volume: |
v. 13 |
| By: |
Andrew I. Dale, Marquis de, Pierre Simon Laplace |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0387943498 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780387943497 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
16 March, 1998 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 1995. Corr. 2nd printing 1998 |
| Series: |
Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences v.13 |
| Pages: |
270 |
| Description: |
Pierre-Simon Laplace is remembered among probabilitists for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. This is a translation, providing a commentary by the translator including histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs. |
| Synopsis: |
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |