The significance of Jacob Bernoulli's \textit{Ars Conjectandi} for the philosophy of probability today

DOI10.1016/0304-4076(95)01766-6zbMath0858.01014OpenAlexW2033664129WikidataQ55953742 ScholiaQ55953742MaRDI QIDQ1126458

Glenn R. Shafer

Publication date: 25 March 1997

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(95)01766-6

zbMATH Keywords

limit theoremNiklaus Bernoulli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of probability theory (60-03)

Related Items (8)

Probabilistic argumentation ⋮ Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn ⋮ The Bernoullis of Basel ⋮ The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory ⋮ An analytic approach to the asymptotic variance of trie statistics and related structures ⋮ The difficult birth of stochastics: Jacob Bernoulli's \textit{Ars conjectandi} (1713) ⋮ John Venn's Hypothetical Infinite Frequentism and Logic ⋮ Tercentennial anniversary of Bernoulli’s law of large numbers

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