The Insurance Cyclopaedia

The Insurance Cyclopaedia
Author: Cornelius Walford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2022-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368127632

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700)

Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700)
Author: K. Hoogendoorn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1441
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004361375

In this bibliography of the exact sciences in the Low Countries, Klaas Hoogendoorn gives a detailed analytical description by autopsy of all printed books published by scientists associated with the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700). The books' locations are given, along with secondary bibliographical sources and concise biographies of the authors. Includes indexes of the editions by subject, printer/publisher and person. Along with books on subjects including mathematics, physics, military science and navigation, the second part describes all known almanacs and prognostications for the period, providing the most complete survey yet available. It is a thoroughly revised and expanded update of D. Bierens de Haan’s Bibliographie néerlandaise historique-scientifique ... (Rome, 1883) up to about 1700.

A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750

A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750
Author: Anders Hald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2005-02-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 047172517X

WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. From the Reviews of History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 "This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource." –Short Book Reviews of ISI

Human Empire

Human Empire
Author: Ted McCormick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009123262

Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.