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Extensively researched, this book traces the life and work of Abraham De Moivre as well as the state of probability and statistics in eighteenth-century Britain
The Doctrine of Chances
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Abraham de Moivre
Categories: Annuities
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Annuities Upon Lives: Or, The Valuation of Annuities Upon Any Number of Lives; as Also, of Reversions
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The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776
Language: en
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Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser University) provides an account of the early development of financial economics and presents a foundation for the study of modern
The Art of Conjecturing, Together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis
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"Part I reprints and reworks Huygens's On Reckoning in Games of Chance. Part II offers a thorough treatment of the mathematics of combinations and permutations,