What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
- ISBN10 1400844223
- ISBN13 9781400844227
- Publish Date 11 May 2021 (first published 21 September 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 451
- Language English