Review of Jacob Bernoulli, The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis,Translated by Edith Dudley Sylla [Book Review]

Isis 101 (1):213-214 (2010)
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Review of Sylla's translation of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing, emphasising Bernoulli's success in understanding multiple quantifiers to formulate and prove a law of large numbers

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