Maty's biography of Abraham de Moivre, translated, annotated and augmented

DOI10.1214/088342306000000268zbMath1246.01019arXiv0708.3965OpenAlexW2058153057MaRDI QIDQ449756

David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest

Publication date: 1 September 2012

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3965

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03) History of probability theory (60-03)

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Cites Work

• Lord Stanhope's papers on the ``Doctrine of Chances
• Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre (1667--1754)
• STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS: IX. THOMAS BAYES'S ESSAY TOWARDS SOLVING A PROBLEM IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES
• ON THE SPHERICAL OSCILLATOR NUCLEUS
• A. de Moivre: 'De Mensura Sortis' or 'On the Measurement of Chance'
• De Moivre's knowledge community: an analysis of the subscription list to the Miscellanea Analytica
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