TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellhouse,D.R.
TI  - Abraham De Moivre: setting the stage for classical probability and its applications 
SN  - 9781568813493
AV  - QA29.M5237 B45 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boca Raton, Fla.
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 (p. 239-256) 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; Also available as an electronic resource
ER  -