The Doctrine of Chances

The Doctrine of Chances
Author: A.De Moivre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136228608

First Published in 1967. In the year 1716 Abraham de Moivre published his Doctrine of Chances, in which the subject of Mathematical Probability took several long strides forward. Includes a series of problems of progressive interest, followed by full solutions and an afterword by H.M. Walker.

Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Jesse Molesworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521191084

A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction.