Bayes or Laplace? An examination of the origin and early applications of Bayes' theorem

zbMath0498.01005MaRDI QIDQ1171045

Andrew I. Dale

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes's theoreminverse probabilityA. A. CournotG.L.L. de BuffonH.E. TimerdingJ. BernoulliP. S. Laplaceproblem of pointsproblem of subsequent sunrisesR. PriceT. Bayes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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