Abraham de Moivre: Setting the stage for classical probability and its applications
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zbMATH Open1235.01020MaRDI QIDQ3171235FDOQ3171235
Authors: David R. Bellhouse 
Publication date: 5 October 2011
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- Formulations of the inclusion–exclusion principle from Legendre to Poincaré, with emphasis on Daniel Augusto da Silva
- Mr. Bayes and the classics: a suggested interpretation
- Lord Stanhope's papers on the ``Doctrine of Chances
- Maty's biography of Abraham de Moivre, translated, annotated and augmented
- The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory
- W. F. Sheppard's correspondence with Karl Pearson and the development of his tables and moment estimates
- Gamma and Factorial in the Monthly
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- Dice games
- Optimal retirement income tontines
- A. de Moivre theorem revisited
- A tricentenary history of the law of large numbers
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