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>.