Keynes Economics Probability Mathematics Philosophy 1921 1St Ed Theory J Maynard

by John Maynard Keynes

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } A Treatise On Probability John Maynard Keynes Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1921. Very Good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. xi, [1], 466, [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, slight spine canter and small tear to spine cover, clean unmarked text, no previous owner’s signature or bookplate, edges gently bumped, tear & small chip to pages 155/156 a very good copy. The foundational work of probability theory, which helped establish the author's enormous influence on modern economic and even political theories. Exploring aspects of randomness and chance, inductive reasoning and logical statistics, this is a work that belongs in the library of any interested in numbers and their application in the real world. Keynes's third published book and his principal mathematical-philosophical work, a substantial expansion on the subject of his fellowship dissertation, in which he sought to establish a mathematical basis for probability theory as Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead had done for symbolic logic in their Principia Mathematica. 'What Keynes sought to do in the book was to extend the principles of valid thought to arguments that were not conclusive and certain but to which it was rational to attach some weight: matters of belief and

• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Year: 1921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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