Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de buffon

Yves Ducel and Thierry Martin

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 77-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Author of the monumental Histoire Naturelle, Buffon also introduced several original ideas in probability and statistics, notably the premier example in “geometric probability” and a body of experimental and theoretical work in demography.

Keywords: Physical Truth; Detailed Bibliography; Natural History Collection; Infinitesimal Calculus; Moral Certainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_15

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