An edition of The nature and laws of chance
(1740)
The nature and laws of chance ...
illustrated with a great variety of examples
by Thomas Simpson
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The nature and laws of chance ...: illustrated with a great variety of examples
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The nature and laws of chance.: Containing, among other particulars, the solutions of several abstruse and important problems, the doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced ... The whole after a new, general, and conspicuous manner, and illustrated with a great variety of examples.
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The nature and laws of chance: Containing, among other particulars, the solutions of several abstruse and important problems. ... The whole after a new, general, and conspicuous manner, and illustrated with a great variety of examples. By Thomas Simpson, ...
1740, Printed by Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate. 1740. And sold by the booksellers
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Table of Contents
(from t.p.) The solutions of several abstruse and important problems
The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced
A new and comprehensive problem of great use in discovering the advantage or loss in lotteries, raffles, &c.
A curious and extensive problem on the duration of play
Problems for determining the probability of winning at bowls, coits, cards, &c.
A problem for finding the trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed event shall happen or fail a given number of times
A problem to find the chance for a given number of points on a given number of dice
Full and clear investigations of two problems added at the end of Mr. De Moivre's last edition, one of them allowed by that great man to be the most useful on the subject, but their demonstrations there omitted
Two new methods for summing of series.
Edition Notes
BLC, v. 303, p. 211
Place of publication from BLC.
Signatures: pi² a² A-X² [Y]².
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.
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