De Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances
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gptkb:book
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| gptkbp:author |
gptkb:Abraham_de_Moivre
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| gptkbp:countryOfPublication |
gptkb:England
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| gptkbp:edition |
first edition 1718
second edition 1738 third edition 1756 |
| gptkbp:fullTitle |
gptkb:The_Doctrine_of_Chances:_or,_A_Method_of_Calculating_the_Probabilities_of_Events_in_Play
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De Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances
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| gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:Pierre-Simon_Laplace
development of statistics mathematical probability |
| gptkbp:language |
English
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| gptkbp:notableFor |
introduction of the normal approximation to the binomial distribution
application of probability to games of chance early systematic treatment of probability |
| gptkbp:publicationYear |
1718
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| gptkbp:publisher |
gptkb:W._Pearson
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| gptkbp:referencedIn |
gptkb:Encyclopædia_Britannica
history of mathematics texts |
| gptkbp:subject |
gptkb:probability_theory
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Central_Limit_Theorem_(early_form)
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7
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