Exercitationum Mathematicarum Libri Quinque Quibus Accedit Christiani Hugenii Tractatus De

by Frans Van Schooten Christiaan Huygens

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First edition

Leiden: Elzevir, 1657. First edition of Huygens' De ratiociniis in aleae ludo, the first printed treatise on probability. “Having heard in Paris about Pascal’s work in probability problems, Huygens 1629-95 himself took up their study in 1656. This resulted in the Tractatus de ratiociniis …, a treatise that remained the only book on the subject until the eighteenth century. In his first theorems

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