De Mensura Sortis Seu De Probabilitate Eventuum In Ludis A Casu Fortuito Pendentibus Pp 213 264 In

by Abraham De Moivre

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First edition

London: Printed for H. Clements … and W. Innys … and D. Brown, 1712. First edition, contained in a complete volume of the Phil. Trans., of de Moivre’s first published work on probability, and the first original work on the subject published in Britain, a precursor to his Doctrine of Chances which appeared seven years later. “ De Moivre’s work on the theory of probability

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