Abraham De Moivre
Subtitle: setting the stage for classical probability and its applications
By: David R. Bellhouse
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781568813493
Subjects: Mathematicians; Mathematics; Probabilities; Intellectual life; Biography; History
Notes: "An A K Peters book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early Life in France; title: Points of Connection; title: Getting Established in England; title: Scotica Mathematica; title: The Breakthrough : De Mensura Sortis; title: A Newtonian Intermezzo; title: Miscellanea Mathematica; title: The Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine Disputed; title: Doctrinal Dissemination and Further Development; title: De Moivre as Teacher; title: Life Annuities; title: The Decade of the Doctrine Enhanced; title: The Two Thomases; title: Old Age.