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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, presents an abstract of the more abstruse investigations of Laplace, together with a multitude of profound and original remarks concerning the theory generally. In Lubbock and Drinkwater's work on Probability, in the Library of Useful Knowledge, we have a concise but good statement of a number of important problems. The Rev. W. A. Whitworth has given, in a work entitled Choice and Chance, a number of good illustrations of calculations both in combinations and probabilities. In Mr. Todhunter's admirable History we have an exhaustive critical account of almost all writings upon the subject of probability down to the culmination of the theory in Laplace's works. The Memoir of Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher has already been mentioned (p. 375). In spite of the existence of these and some other good English works, there seems to be a want of an easy and yet pretty complete mathematical introduction to the study of the theory. Among French works the TraiU Elementaire du Calcul des Probability, by S. F. Lacroix, of which several editions have been published, and which is not difficult to obtain, forms probably the best elementary treatise. Poisson's Becherches sur la Probability des Jugements (Paris 1837), commence with an admirable investigation of the grounds and methods of the theory. While Laplace's great Theorie Analytique des Probability is of course the Principia of the subject; his Essai Philosophique sur les Probability is a popular discourse, and is one of the most profound and interesting essays ever published. It should be familiar to every student of logical method, and has lost little or none of its importance by lapse of time. 1 The Logic of Chance, an Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of...

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