A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750

Download or read book A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 written by Anders Hald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selectedbooks that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effortto increase global appeal and general circulation. With these newunabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives ofthese works by making them available to future generations ofstatisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. From the Reviews of History of Probability and Statistics andTheir Applications before 1750 "This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightestinterest in the history of statistics, or in understanding howmodern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluableresource." –Short Book Reviews of ISI