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BERNOULLI, Jakob (1654-1705). Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et epistola gallic scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. Edited by Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687-1759). Basel: Thurneisen Brothers, 1713.
4o (221 x 170 mm). Woodcut device on title, folding sheet with woodcut diagrams, 2 folding letterpress tables, some woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut decorations and initials. (Some very minor light browning and pale spotting.) 18th-century tan paper boards (some edgewear), uncut; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A.G. Pickford (signature stamp on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION OF THE "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES" (Grolier/Horblit) . Bernoulli's posthumous treatise was edited by his nephew and is considered the first significant book on probability theory. The title refers to conjectandi, or "casting," as in the casting of dice. The Ars conjectandi "was the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis and is still the foundation of much modern practice in all fields where probability is concerned--insurance, statistics and mathematical heredity tables" (PMM). The work is divided into four parts: the first a commentary on Huygens' De ratiociniis in aleae ludo (1657), the second a treatise on permutations and combinations (the former Bernoulli's own term), the third an application of the theory of combination to various games of chance, and the final, and most important, part which contains Bernoulli's philosophical thoughts on probability--as a measurable degree of certainty, necessity and chance, of moral versus mathematical expectation, and of a priori and a posteriori probablility. It also contains his theorem, an application of probability to statistics. A FINE UNCUT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOARDS. Dibner Heralds of Science 110; Grolier/Horblit 12; PMM 179; Norman 216.
4o (221 x 170 mm). Woodcut device on title, folding sheet with woodcut diagrams, 2 folding letterpress tables, some woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut decorations and initials. (Some very minor light browning and pale spotting.) 18th-century tan paper boards (some edgewear), uncut; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A.G. Pickford (signature stamp on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION OF THE "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES" (Grolier/Horblit) . Bernoulli's posthumous treatise was edited by his nephew and is considered the first significant book on probability theory. The title refers to conjectandi, or "casting," as in the casting of dice. The Ars conjectandi "was the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis and is still the foundation of much modern practice in all fields where probability is concerned--insurance, statistics and mathematical heredity tables" (PMM). The work is divided into four parts: the first a commentary on Huygens' De ratiociniis in aleae ludo (1657), the second a treatise on permutations and combinations (the former Bernoulli's own term), the third an application of the theory of combination to various games of chance, and the final, and most important, part which contains Bernoulli's philosophical thoughts on probability--as a measurable degree of certainty, necessity and chance, of moral versus mathematical expectation, and of a priori and a posteriori probablility. It also contains his theorem, an application of probability to statistics. A FINE UNCUT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOARDS. Dibner Heralds of Science 110; Grolier/Horblit 12; PMM 179; Norman 216.