The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal by James Franklin

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal

James Franklin

520 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attai...

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