Lord Stanhope's papers on the ``Doctrine of Chances

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2006.08.006MaRDI QIDQ997153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David R. Bellhouse

Publication date 23 July 2007

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2006.08.006

zbMATH Keywords

gambler's ruindoctrine of fluxionsduration of playtheory of runs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• A Manuscript on Chance Written by John Arbuthnot
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• The Dark Ages of Probability in England: The Seventeenth Century Work of Richard Cumberland and Thomas Strode
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