doctrine chances method calculating von moivre (24 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. p.xxvi, 257 pages, 10 x 7.5 inches, hardback (original red cloth, a gilt-lettered imitation black morocco label on the spine), a very good facsimile ex-library copy of the 1738 Second Edition - but with some additional material.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. 348 pages. Boards are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and a little loose. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1756 version printed in London for A. Millar in the Strand. This is a very nice copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. pp.xi, 368 pages, hardback (blue cloth), a Fine copy of a facsimile reprint of the Third (final) Edition - but including also a reprint of a 1934 biographical article on De Moivre by Helen M. Walker.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 280 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.64 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 296 pages. 10.00x7.01x0.67 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A Huguenot exile in England, the French mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) formed friendships with such luminaries as Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. Making his living from private tuition, he became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and published papers on a range of topics. Probability theory had been pioneered by Pascal, Fermat and Huygens, with further development by the Bernoullis. Originally published in 1718, The Doctrine of Chances was the first English textbook on the new science and so influential that for a time the whole subject was known by the title of the work. Reissued here is the revised and expanded 1738 second edition which contains the remarkable discovery that when a coin is tossed many times, the binomial distribution may be approximated by the normal distribution. This version of the central limit theorem stands as one of de Moivre's most significant contributions to mathematics.

(27,5 x 21,5 cm). (4) XIV (2w) 258 (1) S. Mit Titelvignette und 6 (3 gestochenen) Kopf- bzw. Schlußvignetten. Lederband der Zeit. Gegenüber der ersten Ausgabe von 1718 um über 80 Seiten vermehrt. - "The first textbook for the calculus of probabilities. It constitutes the results of the activities of its author as a private instructor of mathematics. It was based on the concept of probability and its classical measure; it contained in an introductory theoretical part the main rules, extended the mathematical methods for the solution of its problems by analytical tools, and offered from the second edition on an approximation of the binomial by the normal distribution. A second edition (1738) contained his normal approximation to the binomial distribution, which he had found in 1733. De Moivre's greatest mathematical achievement is considered a form of the central limit theorem, which he found in 1733 at the age of 66. He understood his central limit theorem as a generalization and a sharpening of Bernoulli's 'Theorema aureum', which was later named 'the law of large numbers' by S. D. Poisson" (Landmark writings). - "De Moivre's masterpiece is 'The Doctrine of Chances'. A Latin version appeared as 'De mensura sortis' in 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. He was able to dedicate his first book, 'The Doctrine of Chances', to Newton; and the aging Newton would, it is said, turn students away with 'Go to Mr. De Moivre; he knows these things better than I do'" (DSB). - Exlibris. Stempel mit Elephant auf Titel. Vereinzelt gering fleckig. Vorsätze erneuert und Rücken sorgsam restauriert. Insgesamt wohlerhalten. - DSB 9, 452; Landmark writings in western mathematics S. 105; Kress 4395; vgl. Norman 1529 (EA).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. xi, 368p. A near fine copy, no d.j. The third edition says, on the title-page, that it is "Fuller, Clearer, and more Correct than the Former." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [1967]. 3rd Ed. Reprint of 1766 Edition. Book.

4to, pp.[4], xiv, 175, [1]; copper-engraved ornament to title-page, woodcut and engraved head- and tailpieces; occasional stains and light foxing, otherwise a handsome copy on fine paper in contemporary Cambridge-panelled calf, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine; skilfully rebacked and recornered with the original spine relaid, spine worn and covers scuffed; armorial bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch to front pastedown, early ink inscription to front free endpaper (see below), two minor annotations in ink to pp.7 and 36.First edition, a very good copy with likely Virginian provenance, of this classic on the theory of probability and game theory, inscribed in multiple hands aboard the sixty-gun warship HMS Dunkirk, a human moment of indulgence stolen between the drudgery and danger of life aboard a Royal Naval ship. The Doctrine of Chances is dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, and personal friend of de Moivre. 'The principal contributions to our subject from de Moivre are his investigations respecting the Duration of Play, his Theory of Recurring Series, and his extension of the value of Bernoulli's Theorem by the aid of Stirling's Theorem . it will not be doubted that the Theory of Probability owes more to [de Moivre] than to any other mathematician, with the sole exception of Laplace' (Todhunter, A History of the mathematical Theory of probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace (1865), p.193). Our copy records a rare and fleeting moment of levity on deck: the inscription to the front free endpaper, written in multiple hands, reads 'Mr. Mollet & Mr Dobby playing at Backgamon | 29May 1740 under the awning on Board His | Majisties Ship Dunkirk Capt. Bolling | & Mr Stafford first Lieutenant looking on'. Ship's logs show that on 29 May 1740, the HMS Dunkirk was at sea off the Isles of Scilly, and travelled thirty-two miles in stormy weather; an unlikely time to play backgammon on deck. Furthermore, we can find no record of a Captain Bolling or any of the other officers named in British Army or Royal Navy lists for 1740. Could the year 1740 have been written in error instead of 1741, perhaps by force of habit in the early months of the new year (prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the year began on 25 March)? Circumstance seems to support this: on 29 May 1741 the conditions were decidedly different: the HMS Dunkirk was moored in fair weather at the mouth of the Magdalena River in Colombia, one of a fleet of British warships patrolling the north coast of South America in the aftermath of Admiral Vernon's disastrous attack on Cartagena earlier that year, which inflicted over ten thousand fatalities on British forces. The Dunkirk's manoeuvres off Cartagena provide a compelling clue to the possible identities of our officers and to the connection between the 1740s owner of this book and the later Gooch family provenance. In autumn 1740, SirWilliam Gooch (16811751), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, led a regiment of some 3500 Virginian militiamen (known as 'Gooch's American Foot') to Jamaica; they would then take part in the failed attack on Cartagena. Gooch was excluded from the British council of war, and his men were disdained by the officers. At the start of 1741, many of Gooch's men were made deckhands on undermanned British ships, fifty-one of them embarking to the Dunkirk on 24 January 1741 as supernumeraries. In March, they sailed as de facto members of the Royal Navy, and 'a majority of the American troops never returned, being kept as conscripted sailors on the ships to which they had been abducted' (Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled American Revolution). Where we find no Captain Bollings in the UK, we find a plethora of them in Virginia, all members of the local militia. The Captain Bolling mentioned in the inscription is likely the Virginian John Bolling Jr (17001757), great-great-grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe and later colonel of the Westfield County militia. As First Families of Virginia, the Bollings and Gooches would have had frequent contact: Bolling's father had acquired land along the James River in Goochland, the seat of Gooch's estate; typical of Virginia colonial gentry, many of the Bollings also served in the local county militia, and were members of the House of Burgesses. Did Bolling and the other men aboard the Dunkirk find themselves in Cartagena as part of Gooch's regiment of colonial recruits? SirWilliam Gooch returned to England in 1747. Predeceased by his only son, his estate (including the library) was inherited by his nephew. The book was sold with the Gooch estate at Benacre Hall, Suffolk, in 2000. ESTC T33065; Babson 181; Honeyman 2240; see Stigler, The History of Statistics (1986), pp.70ff.; for the provenance, see Loftus, 'The Doctrine of Chances', in Brick, A Literary Journal 92 (2014), pp.97ff. Language: English.

London, 1718. (1987). 4to. Full cloth. (4),XIV,175 pp. (A Xerox-copy made from the master copy of the original book. U.M.I. Out of Print Books on demand).