The smallpox vaccine: the dispute between Bernoulli and d'Alembert and the calculus of probabilities

DOI10.1007/S40329-015-0073-5MaRDI QIDQ1632175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Camilla Colombo, Mirko Diamanti

Publication date 13 December 2018

Published in Lettera Matematica. International Edition (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-015-0073-5

zbMATH Keywords

art of conjecturecalculus of probabilitieslogicmathematical modelssmallpoxvaccinations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of probability theory (60-03)

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