A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities by Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace. translated by F W Truscott and F L Emory
by marquis de Pierre Simon Laplace
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About this eBook
- Author
- Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827
- Title
- A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Chris Pinfield, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QA: Science: Mathematics
- Subject
- Probabilities
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58881
- Release Date
- February 13, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES. — TABLE OF CONTENTS. — ERRATA.
- 2.PART I. A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- 3.CHAPTER II. CONCERNING PROBABILITY.
- 4.CHAPTER III. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES.
- 5.CHAPTER IV. CONCERNING HOPE.
- 6.CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE ANALYTICAL METHODS OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES.
- 7.PART II. APPLICATIONS OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES. — CHAPTER VI. GAMES OF CHANCE.
- 8.CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING THE UNKNOWN INEQUALITIES WHICH MAY EXIST AMONG CHANCES WHICH ARE SUPPOSED EQUAL.
- 9.CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE LAWS OF PROBABILITY WHICH RESULT FROM THE INDEFINITE MULTIPLICATION OF EVENTS.
- 10.CHAPTER IX. THE APPLICATION OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES TO NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
- 11.CHAPTER X. APPLICATION OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES TO THE MORAL SCIENCES.
- 12.CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING THE PROBABILITIES OF TESTIMONIES.
- 13.CHAPTER XII. CONCERNING THE SELECTIONS AND THE DECISIONS OF ASSEMBLIES.
- 14.CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING THE PROBABILITY OF THE JUDGMENTS OF TRIBUNALS.
- 15.CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNING TABLES OF MORTALITY, AND OF MEAN DURATIONS OF LIFE, OF MARRIAGES, AND OF ASSOCIATIONS.
- 16.CHAPTER XV. CONCERNING THE BENEFITS OF INSTITUTIONS WHICH DEPEND UPON THE PROBABILITY OF EVENTS.
- 17.CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING ILLUSIONS IN THE ESTIMATION OF PROBABILITIES.
- 18.CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING THE VARIOUS MEANS OF APPROACHING CERTAINTY.
- 19.CHAPTER XVIII. HISTORICAL NOTICE CONCERNING THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES.
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