Philosophical Essay on Probabilities / Pierre-Simon Laplace ; translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 with notes by the translator Andrew I. Dale.

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered among 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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 (Author)
Other Authors:	Dale, Andrew I. (Translator)
Other title:	Essai philosophique sur les probabilités. English.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1995.
Series:	Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences ; 13.
Subjects:	Mathematics. Distribution (Probability theory)