Calcul des probabilites

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  • Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1896
By POINCARE, H.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1896. FIRST EDITION. With numerous text diagrams. Contemporary half-morocco and cloth. From the library of George E. Hale with a small presentation bookplate to the Mount Wilson Observatory Library from Adriaan van Maanen and the blind-stamp of the library on the fly-leaf. First edition of the author's classic work on probability and statistics. His fundamental discoveries on differential equations as well as the theories of Laplace, Gauss, and Bertrand are here described. This treatise greatly influenced modern works on the subject.

Poincaré (1854-1912) was an eminent French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. His important contributions to mathematical techniques, pure mathematics, celestial mechanics, and analysis were recognized by his appointment to memebership in the Académie des Sciences in 1887, and the Royal Society in 1894.

Poggendorff, IV, p. 1178; Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, pp. 278-281; Zeitlinger, II, 13456.

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Calcul des probabilites

Author

POINCARE, H.

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Publisher

Gauthier-Villars: Paris

Date

1896

Edition

FIRST EDITION


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