Research Catalog

Title

The doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances; 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 [electronic resource].

Publication

London : sold by B. and J. White, Fleet-Street, 1795.

Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

viii,xvi,606p.; 8⁰.

Uniform Title

• Ars conjectandi. English. Selections.
• Doctrine of permutations and combinations.
• Treatise of algebra. Selections.
• Eighteenth century collections online.

Subject

• Permutations
• Binomial theorem
• 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.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642705904
• T82078

Title

The doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances; 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 [electronic resource].

Imprint

London : sold by B. and J. White, Fleet-Street, 1795.

Series

Eighteenth century collections online.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T82078.

Connect to:

Full text online - available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748.

Maseres, Francis, 1731-1824.

Wallis, John, 1616-1703.

Gale (Firm)

Added Title

Ars conjectandi. English. Selections.

Doctrine of permutations and combinations.

Treatise of algebra. Selections.