About “The doctrine of chances”
The Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by the 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and published in 1718. De Moivre wrote the book in English because he lived in England, having left France to escape the persecution of Huguenots. The title became closely associated with probability theory, and the phrase was later used in Thomas Bayes' posthumous paper An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances, which introduced an early version of Bayes' theorem. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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 | The doctrine of chances | 1756 | — | Buy on Amazon |
 | The doctrine of chances | 1756 | — | Buy on Amazon |