A letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on probability

DOI10.1080/17498430.2018.1437244zbMath1397.01019OpenAlexW2791792977WikidataQ58533978 ScholiaQ58533978MaRDI QIDQ4569523

Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date: 25 June 2018

Published in: BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2018.1437244

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of probability theoryapplications of probability theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of statistics (62-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) History of probability theory (60-03)

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• The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory
• A history of inverse probability. From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson.
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• A “Large and Graceful Sinuosity”
• Astronomy and probability: Forbes versus Michell on the distribution of the stars

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