An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a
mathematical model of rationality What did it mean to be reasonable in
the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal,
Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this
question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and
belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life
their debates and philosophical arguments, charting the development
and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers
of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in
the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics
designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.
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9780691248516
Publisert
2023
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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