What did it mean to be resonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
作者说作为一本入门级概念史,我尽量少提数学...真的很贴心。
评分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
评分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
评分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.
评分rethinking determinism/contingency in history of probability; to be read in line with <Leviathan and the air pump>.