Research Catalog

Title

The Doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances [electronic resource] : as it is delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in his excellent treatise on the doctrine of chances, intitled, Ars Conjectandi, and by the celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a Tract intitled from The subject, and published at the end of his Treatise on algebra : in the former of which tracts is contained, A demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's famous binomial theorem, in the cases of integral powers, and of the reciprocals of integral powers : together with some other useful mathematical tracts / published by Francis Maseres, esq. Cursitor Earon of the Court of Exchequer.

Publication

London : B. and J. White, 1795.

Details

Additional Authors

• Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748.
• Maseres, Francis, 1731-1824.
• Wallis, John, 1616-1703.

Description

1 online resource ([iii]-viii, xvi, 606 p.).

Series Statement

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Ars conjectandi. Selections. English.
• Treatise of algebra. Selections.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Permutations > Early works to 1800
• Binomial theorem > Early works to 1800
• Mathematics > Early works to 1800
• Combinations > Early works to 1800

Note

• Comprises the preface and first three chapters of the second part of Bernouilli's 'Ars conjectandi' in the original Latin and in an expanded English translation; also Wallis's 'Discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts' from his 'Treatise of algebra'; and extracts from works by Maseres, Thomas Simpson, Thomas Brancker, Thomas Fantet de Lagny, Joseph Raphson, James Dodson, and Charles Hutton. Half-title: 'Mr. James Bernoulli's doctrine of permutations and combinations'. Subsequent sections have divisional half-titles.
• "Errata."--P. v-viii, 1st count.
• Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

OCLC

• 745201320
• NCCO2011522

Title

The Doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances [electronic resource] : as it is delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in his excellent treatise on the doctrine of chances, intitled, Ars Conjectandi, and by the celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a Tract intitled from The subject, and published at the end of his Treatise on algebra : in the former of which tracts is contained, A demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's famous binomial theorem, in the cases of integral powers, and of the reciprocals of integral powers : together with some other useful mathematical tracts / published by Francis Maseres, esq. Cursitor Earon of the Court of Exchequer.

Imprint

London : B. and J. White, 1795.

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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Added Author

Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748.

Maseres, Francis, 1731-1824.

Wallis, John, 1616-1703.

Added Title

Ars conjectandi. Selections. English.

Treatise of algebra. Selections.