History of Probablility and Statistics

On the Web

• An Outline of the History of Game Theory, by Paul Walker.

Bibliography

• Dale, Andrew I. A history of inverse probability: from Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991.

• Daston, Lorraine. Classical probability in the Enlightenment. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988.

• David, F. N. (Florence Nightingale). Games, gods and gambling: the origins and history of probability and statistical ideas from the earliest times to the Newtonian era. Griffin, London, 1962.

• Hacking, Ian. The emergence of probability: a philosophical study of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference. Cambridge University Press, London-New York, 1975.

• Hald, Anders. A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750. Wiley, New York, 1990. Review: Math. Rev. 91c:01003.

• Heidelberger, Michael, Lorenz Kruger, and Rosemarie Rheinwald, editors. Probability since 1800: interdisciplinary studies of scientific development. B. Kleine Verlag, Bielefeld, 1983.

• Heyde, C. C., and E. Seneta. I. J. Bienayme: statistical theory anticipated. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1977.

• Hilts, Victor L. Statist and statistician. Arno Press, New York, 1981.

• King, Amy C., and Cecil B. Read. Pathways to probabililty; history of the matheamtics of certainty and chance. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1963.

• Kolmogorov, A. N., and A. P. Yushkevich, editors. Mathematics of the 19th century: mathematical logic, algebra, number theory, probability theory. Translation of Matematika XIX veka. Birkhauser, Boston, 1992.

• MacKenzie, Donald. Statistics in Britain 1865-1930.. Edinburgh, 1981.

• Maistrov, L. E. (Leonid Efimovich). Probability theory; a historical sketch. Translated by Samuel Kotz from Teoriia veroiatnostei. Academic Press, New York, 1974.

• Owen, D. B., editor. On the history of statistics and probability: proceedings of a symposium on the American mathematical heritage. Dekker, New York, 1976.

• Pearson, E. S. (Egon Sharpe), and M. G. Kendall, editors. Studies in the history of statistics and probability: a series of papers. Griffin, London, 1970.

• Porter, Theodore M. The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1986.

• Stigler, Stephen M. The History of Statistics: the measurement of uncertainty before 1900. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986.

• Tankard, James W. The statistical pioneers. Schenkman, Cambridge, Mass., 1984.

• Todhunter, Isaac, 1820-1884. History of the mathematical theory of probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace. Macmillan, London, 1865. Reprinted by Chelsea, New York, 1965.

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