The nature and laws of chance ... : illustrated with a great variety of examples / by Thomas Simpson ...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.

Contributor:

• McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Probabilities--Early works to 1800.
• Games of chance (Mathematics)--Early works to 1800.
• Games of chance (Mathematics).
• Probabilities.

Genre:

• Early works.

Physical Description:

[4], iv, 85, [3] p. (the first leaf and last 3 p. blank) ; 22 cm. (4to)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed by Edward Cave ..., 1740.

Contents:

• (from t. p.) The solutions of several abstruse and important problems
• The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced
• A new and comprehensive problem of great use in discovering the advantage or loss in lotteries, raffles, &c.
• A curious and extensive problem on the duration of play
• Problems for determining the probability of winning at bowls, coits, cards, &c.
• A problem for finding the trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed event shall happen or fail a given number of times
• A problem to find the chance for a given number of points on a given number of dice
• Full and clear investigations of two problems added at the end of Mr. De Moivre's last edition, one of them allowed by that great man to be the most useful on the subject, but their demonstrations there omitted
• Two new methods for summing of series.

Notes:

• Place of publication from BLC.
• Signatures: pi² a² A-X² [Y]².
• Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.

Cited in:

BL

OCLC:

29028177