D'Alembert's critique of probability theory

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(79)90125-3zbMath0422.01010OpenAlexW2001690582MaRDI QIDQ1133527

Lorraine Daston

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(79)90125-3

zbMATH Keywords

probabilitySt. Petersburg paradoxD'Alembert

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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