Publication details
Teorie pravděpodobnosti a mravní záležitosti dle Jakoba Bernoulliho
| Title in English | Theory of probability and moral issues according to Jacob Bernoulli |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | 36. mezinárodní konference historie matematiky |
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| Field | History |
| Keywords | history of probability theory; Ars Conjectandi |
| Description | Jacob Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi (1713) is a key work in the history of probability theory. This contribution points out some aspects of the fourth part of his book, which is devoted to applications of probability theory that Bernoulli had explained in the previous three sections. The contribution is a result of a detailed study of Ars Conjectandi. |