an hypothetical chain of transmissions
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This entry was posted on August 6, 2021 at 12:21 am and is filed under Books, Statistics, University life with tags Abbé Morellet, Condorcet, history of statistics, Pierre Simon Laplace, Richard Price, Significance, Thomas Bayes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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August 9, 2021 at 11:08 am
A bit reminiscent of the (one-sided, as far as I can tell) Newton-Leibnitz pissing contest about calculus…
August 6, 2021 at 12:51 am
So, let me get this straight, Weisburg is postulating that, because of a footnote Price put in a paper in 1767, and because of a dinner that took place in Paris in 1772, which neither Laplace or Condorce attended, this led (helped?!) Laplace to deduce the law of inverse probability… Seems a bit of a silly proposition to me, but what do I know.
August 6, 2021 at 7:24 am
The dinner was in London but indeed this sums it up!