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New York: John Wiley & Sons. Good; Collectible - Ex-Library with Markings. 1961. Reprint. Hardbound. 106 pages .

New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 1956. Paperback Reprint Edition [1956]. Very Good in Wraps: shows light wear to the extremities; the backstrip is slightly concave and shows some faint creases; a very faint crease near outside edge front face; a small scuff at the midpoint of the front hinge; the binding is itself square and secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor cosmetic flaws: a clean, sturdy, presentable copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches). vii, 688 pages. Language: English. Weight: 1 pound, 9.4 ounces. Reprint Edition [1956]. Trade Paperback. A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics from A'h-mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein, Presented with Commenataries and… Leer más

New York, NY Dover Publications;, 1983. Paperback Reprint Edition [1983]; the first edition was published by McGraw-Hill in 1961. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; former owner's name at the top of the front free endpaper; the binding is slightly cocked, but does not lean and remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.55 x 5.3 x 0.85 inches). xv, 423 pages. Weight: 16.1 ounces. Reprint Edition [1983]; the first edition was published by McGraw-Hill in 1961. Trade Paperback. 

paperback. 116 pages with text In German. Thin 8vo, original beige printed wrappers; just a bit darkened and chipped. Wien: Gerold & Co., 1948. Text in German.<br/><br/> Neatly inked name at top of title, otherwise a fine copy.<br/><br/>

Duxbury, 1999-01-01. Paperback, Trade. Good. 0 Paperback, Trade - A (very) little highlighting and a few problems worked

Wellesley: A K Peters, 2005. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with diagrams throughout. xii, 385 pages. 8vo, maroon and yellow glossy pictorial boards. Wellesley: A K Peters Ltd. A fine copy.<br/> <br/>

Brasov, Romania. Brasov, Romania: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine and front cover. Front hinge is starting, book is shaken. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Bound in salmon cloth with bright gilt titles to front cover and spine. . Approximately 85 papers appear here, on various aspects of probability theory, in abstracts and full texts. Articles are mostly in English, but also French and German. Most papers are highly mathematical. 644 pages. Scarce. . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 644 pages. F2 .

Leipzig: Teubner, 1936. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated throughout with a profusion of mathematical formulae. viii, 160, [2]pp. Thin 8vo, gilt-lettered green cloth. Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1936. First edition.<br/><br/> Neatly inked name inside front cover, otherwise a fine copy.<br/><br/>

Engraved vignette on title and engraved head- & tailpieces. 2 p.l., xiv, 175 pp. Large 4to, cont. mottled calf (expertly rebacked & recornered by Aquarius), spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: W. Pearson for the Author, 1718. First edition and a fine copy of this classic on the theory of probability; it is dedicated to Isaac Newton who was a personal friend of the author. "His work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except P.S. Laplace. His principal contributions are his investigations respecting the Duration of Play, his Theory of Recurring Series, and his extension of the value of Daniel Bernoulli's theorem by the aid of Stirling's theorem."-Cajori, A History of Mathematics, p. 230. Nice copy. &#10087; Babson 181-"He was among the intimate friends of Newton, to whom this book is dedicated. It is the second book devoted entirely to the theory of probability and a classic on the… Leer más

Several woodcut diagrams in the text. 6 p.l., 250 pp., one leaf of errata. Large 4to, cont. calf (two corners a bit worn), double gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1730. [bound with]: -. [Drop-title]: Miscellaneis Analyticis Supplementum. 22 pp., one leaf of errata. N.p.: n.d. First edition of the de Moivre's "most important book" (D.N.B.), here bound with the rare Supplementum which is very often missing. The Miscellanea Analytica is the successor to The Doctrine of Chances and contains the first formulation of "De Moivre's Theorem," the formula for determining a normal approximation to a binomial distribution. This became "the most fruitful single instrument of discovery used in probability theory and statistics for the next two centuries."-D.S.B., IX, pp. 452-53. The Supplementum was published by de Moivre to answer criticisms made by James Stirling after the appearance of the… Leer más

Woodcut device on title, two folding printed tables, & one folding woodcut plate. Diagrams in the text. 2 p.l., 306, 35, [1] pp. 4to, cont. speckled sheep (upper joint with short crack, bookplate on blank portion of title patched, minor foxing), spine gilt, red leather lettering piece on spine. Basel: impensis Thurnisiorum, Fratrum, 1713. [bound with]: BERNOULLI, Nicolaus I. Dissertatio Inauguralis Mathematico-Juridica. De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure. 56 pp. 4to. Basel: J.C. Mechel, 1709. A most attractive sammelband. I. First edition of "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."-Printing & the Mind of Man 179. II. First edition. Nicolaus I (1687-1759), nephew of Jacob I and Johann I and editor of the Ars Conjectandi, obtained the degree of doctor of jurisprudence with this… Leer más