A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750

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The book and its relation to other works

A sketch of the background in mathematics and natural philosophy

Early concepts of probability and chance

Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae, c. 1565

The foundation of probability theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654

Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, 1657

John Graunt and the Observations made upon the bills of mortality, 1662

The probabilistic interpretation of Graunt's life table

The early history of life insurance mathematics

Mathematical models and statistical methods in astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo

The Newtonian revolution in mathematics and science

Miscellaneous contributions between 1857 and 1708

The great leap forward, 1708-1718 : a survey

New solutions to old problems, 1708-1718

James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi, 1713

Bernoulli's Theorem

Tests of significance based on the sex ratio at birth and the binomial distribution, 1712-1713

Montmort and the Essay d'Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard, 1708 and 1713

The problem of coincidences and the compound probability theorem

The problem of the duration of play, 1708-1718

Nicholas Bernoulli

De Moivre and the Doctrine of chances, 1718, 1738, and 1756

The problem of the duration of play and the method of difference equations

De Moivre's normal approximation to the binomial distribution, 1733

The insurance mathematics of de Moivre and Simpson, 1725-1756