 | François Arago - 1859
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered and continues daily to render services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...probabilities which alone can regulate justly the premiums to be paid for assurances ; the reserve funds for the disbursement of pensions, annuities,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...Fermat established jts first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...mortality, teaches us to deduce from those numbers, iu general so erroneously interpreted, conclusions of a, precise and useful character ; it is the calculus... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 410 pages
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...probabilities which alone can regulate justly the premiums to be paid for assurances; the reserve funds for the disbursements of pensions, annuities,... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 pages
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...probabilities which alone can regulate justly the premiums to be paid for assurances; the reserve funds for the disbursements of pensions, annuities,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917
...rendered most important daily services. This it is which, after suggesting the best form for statistical tables of population and mortality, teaches us to deduce from those numbers, so often misinterpreted, the most precise and useful conclusions. This it is which alone regulates... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...the tables of population and mortality, teaches us todeduce from those numbers, in general so erroneously interpreted, conclusions of a precise and useful... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 420 pages
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...having suggested the best arrangements of the tables of populations and mortality, teaches us to deduce from those numbers, in useful character; it is the... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 484 pages
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...having suggested the best arrangements of the tables of populations and mortality, teaches us to deduce from those numbers, in useful character; it is the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered, and continues daily to render, services of the most eminent kind. It is the calculus of probabilities,...conclusions of a precise and useful character ; it is the c"alculu8 of probabilities which alone can regulate justly the preminms to be paid for assurances ;... | |
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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. From the time when Pascal and Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered and... 