Early history of the theory of probability

DOI10.1007/BF00499624zbMath0393.01004OpenAlexW2023331382WikidataQ52809756 ScholiaQ52809756MaRDI QIDQ1252012

Oscar B. Sheynin

Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00499624

zbMATH Keywords

1713PascalHuygensFermat1654Correspondence of Pascal and FermatEarly HistoryJ.BernoulliTheory of Probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of probability theory (60-03)

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