The Emergence of Probability
Subtitle: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference (Cambridge Series on Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521685573
Subjects: History of mathematics; Philosophy of science; Probability & statistics; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy / General; Analysis of variance; Linear models (Statistics); Regression analysis
Description: "Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debates center around figures such as Pascal, Leibniz and Jacques Bernoulli."--Jacket.