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Contents
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3 Early Concepts of Probability and Chance | 28 |
4 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae c 1565 | 33 |
5 The Foundation of Probability Theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654 | 42 |
6 Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae 1657 | 65 |
7 John Graunt and the Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality 1662 | 81 |
8 The Probabilistic Interpretation of Graunts Life Table | 106 |
15 James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi 1713 | 220 |
16 Bernoullis Theorem | 257 |
17 Tests of Significance Based on the Sex Ratio at Birth and the Binomial Distribution 17121713 | 275 |
18 Montmort and the Essay dAnalyse sur les Jeux de Hazard 1708 and 1713 | 286 |
19 The Problem of Coincidences and the Compound Probability Theorem | 326 |
20 The Problem of the Duration of Play 17081718 | 347 |
21 Nicholas Bernoulli | 375 |
22 De Moivre and the Doctrine of Chances 1718 1738 and 1756 | 397 |
9 The Early History of Life Insurance Mathematics | 116 |
10 Mathematical Models and Statistical Methods in Astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo | 144 |
11 The Newtonian Revolution in Mathematics and Science | 170 |
12 Miscellaneous Contributions between 1657 and 1708 | 183 |
13 The Great Leap Forward 17081718 A Survey | 191 |
14 New Solutions to Old Problems 17081718 | 196 |
23 The Problem of the Duration of Play and the Method of Difference Equations | 425 |
24 De Moivres Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution 1733 | 468 |
25 The insurance Mathematics of de Moivre and Simpson 17251756 | 508 |
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