[PDF.88sx] The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

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 | #3812967 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1975-04-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .0 x.0 x.0l,.9 | File type: PDF | 209 pages

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||69 of 69 people found the following review helpful.| A stimulating tour de force|By A Customer|This is a great book. Hacking describes the development of probability and statistics from the Renaissance to David Hume. His central questions are: What were Pascal, Huygens, Leibniz, Jacques Bernoulli, and all the others really doing? What problems were they trying to solve? What limitations were they working under? How did all| |'Ian Hacking's delightful new book is a tour de force of historical scholarship ... [He] takes us on a fascinating tour, not only among the 17th century giants of probability theory, such as Pascal, Huygens, Leibniz, and Bernoulli, but among their predecessors

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 debate centres round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz...

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