Series. Mathematical term,
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Moivre, A. de, 1667-1754. Miscellanea analytica de seriebus et quadra- turis. (Continued.)
supplementum. A second supplement, entitled “Approximatio ad summam
terminorum binomii (a+b)" in seriem expansi,” issued in 1733, contains the
first known development of the “normal” probability curve rediscovered later by Laplace and Gauss. A photographic copy of the 2d supplement with commentary by Raymond Clare Archibald is printed in Isis, vol. 8, pp. 677-683, Oct., 1926 [*7910A.82.8].
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. This card was printcd at the Boston Ried) Public Library, December 6, 1934.
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