Marquis de Condorcet

P. Crépel

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 90-92 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Condorcet applied mathematics in a precocious and philosophically argued fashion to humanistic and social problems. His probabilistic work is full of interesting ideas on mathematical expectation and inverse probability, and takes into account evolution over time, amongst other matters.

Keywords: Mathematical Expectation; Inverse Probability; French Revolution; Integral Calculus; Violent Episode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_18

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