TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellhouse,D.R.
TI  - Abraham De Moivre: setting the stage for classical probability and its applications 
SN  - 9781568813493 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - QA29.M5237 B45 2011
U1  - 510.92 BEL/MoiB 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Moivre, Abraham de,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - "An A K Peters book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Early Life in France -- Points of Connection -- Getting Established in England -- Scotica Mathematica -- The Breakthrough : De Mensura Sortis -- A Newtonian Intermezzo -- Miscellanea Mathematica -- The Doctrine of Chances and the Doctrine Disputed -- Doctrinal Dissemination and Further Development -- De Moivre as Teacher -- Life Annuities -- The Decade of the Doctrine Enhanced -- The Two Thomases -- Old Age
UR  - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024590950&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
ER  -