Essay d'Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard

by Pierre Rémond de Montmort

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First edition

Paris: Jacque Quillau, 1708. First edition, first issue, very rare, of the first separately published textbook of probability. This issue has significant textual differences from what is usually referred to as the first edition. “In 1708 Montmort published his work on Chances, where with the courage of Columbus he revealed a new world to mathematicians” Todhunter, p. 78 . “The Essay 1708 is the first

• Binding: Hardcover

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