BERNOULLI, Jacob. Ars Conjectandi. Basel, Thurnheysen, 1713.

Small 4to, mm. 210x170; contemporary paper binding; pp. 4, 306, 2, 35, 1 with errata, with two numerical tables outside the text in the first part and a table outside the text of geometric figures found at the end of the second part. A stamp in Title-page of the library extinct.

Original edition. It is the most important of Jacob Bernoulli, who laid the foundations of modern calculus of probability, developing theories and calculations of Newton and Leibniz.

PMM: "It was 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 tables heredity." Curious even the epistle adding at the end, Lettre à un Amy, sur les Parties du Jeu de Paume, where perhaps for the first time the probability calculation is applied to a sports game.

P.M.M., n. 179; Grolier-Horblit, n.12; Dibner, n. 110; Honeyman, n. 291; Norman 216.

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