MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01888cam a2200253 a 4500
001 93109395
003 DLC
005 19931001135220.8
008 930129s1740 enk 000 0 eng
010 $a 93109395
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrb
050 00 $aQA273$b.S61 1740
100 1 $aSimpson, Thomas,$d1710-1761.
245 14 $aThe nature and laws of chance ... :$billustrated with a great variety of examples /$cby Thomas Simpson ...
260 $a[London] :$bPrinted by Edward Cave ...,$c1740.
300 $a[4], iv, 85, [3] p. (the first leaf and last 3 pages blank) ;$c22 cm. (4to)
500 $aPlace of publication from BLC.
500 $aSignatures: pi² a² A-X² [Y]².
510 4 $aBLC,$cv. 303, p. 211
505 0 $a(from t.p.) The solutions of several abstruse and important problems -- The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced -- A new and comprehensive problem of great use in discovering the advantage or loss in lotteries, raffles, &c. -- A curious and extensive problem on the duration of play -- Problems for determining the probability of winning at bowls, coits, cards, &c. -- A problem for finding the trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed event shall happen or fail a given number of times -- A problem to find the chance for a given number of points on a given number of dice -- Full and clear investigations of two problems added at the end of Mr. De Moivre's last edition, one of them allowed by that great man to be the most useful on the subject, but their demonstrations there omitted -- Two new methods for summing of series.
500 $aSource: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.$5DLC
650 0 $aProbabilities$xEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aGames of chance (Mathematics)$xEarly works to 1800.
710 21 $aMcManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC