Buffon, the certainty of sunrise, and the probabilistic reductio ad absurdum

DOI10.1007/s004070000035zbMath0978.01022OpenAlexW2009667425MaRDI QIDQ5944757

Jeff Loveland

Publication date: 10 February 2002

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070000035

zbMATH Keywords

probability of next sunrise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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