The doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances; as it is delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in his excellent Treatise on the Doctrine of Chances, intitled, Ars Conjectandi, and by the celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a Tract intitled from the Subject, and published at the end of his Treatise on Algebra: In the former of which Tracts is contained, A Demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's famous Binomial Theorem, in the Cases of Integral Powers, and of the Reciprocals of Integral Powers. Together with some other useful mathematical tracts. Published by Francis Maseres, Esq. Cursitor Earon of the Court of Exchequer [electronic resource].
1795
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The doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances; as it is delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in his excellent Treatise on the Doctrine of Chances, intitled, Ars Conjectandi, and by the celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a Tract intitled from the Subject, and published at the end of his Treatise on Algebra: In the former of which Tracts is contained, A Demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's famous Binomial Theorem, in the Cases of Integral Powers, and of the Reciprocals of Integral Powers. Together with some other useful mathematical tracts. Published by Francis Maseres, Esq. Cursitor Earon of the Court of Exchequer [electronic resource].
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Ars conjectandi. English. Selections.
Doctrine of permutations and combinations.
Treatise of algebra. Selections.
Doctrine of permutations and combinations.
Treatise of algebra. Selections.
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London : sold by B. and J. White, Fleet-Street, 1795.
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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viii,xvi,606p. ; 8⁰.
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Comprises the preface and first three chapters of the second part of Bernouilli's 'Ars conjectandi' in the original Latin and in an expanded English translation; also Wallis's 'Discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts' from his 'Treatise of algebra'; and extracts from works by Maseres, Thomas Simpson, Thomas Brancker, Thomas Fantet de Lagny, Joseph Raphson, James Dodson, and Charles Hutton. Half-title: 'Mr. James Bernoulli's doctrine of permutations and combinations'. Subsequent sections have divisional half-titles.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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