Table of contents for The art of conjecturing : Ars conjectandi (Basel, 1713), together with his letter to a friend on sets in court tennis / Jacob Bernoulli ; translated into English [and edited] by Edith Dudley Sylla.

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 Table of Contents
 
 
 Preface
 i 
 
 Introduction
 1 
 
 Preliminaries concerning the Bernoulli family tree
 and the spelling of names
 
 
 Section I. Bernoulli's life and social context.
 Section II. Bernoulli's other writing related to AC
 A. Before becoming Professor of mathematics
 1. Journal articles
 2. Theses for disputation at Basel
 3. Entries in the his research journal
 4. Other university exercises
 B. As professor of mathematics at Basel
 1. Journal articles
 2. Theses for disputation at Basel
 3. Entries in the his research journal
 4. Other written evidence
 5. Correspondence with Leibniz
 C. The period from Jacob Bernoulli's death in 1705 
 to publication of AC in 1713
 1. Pierre Rémond de Montmort
 2. Nicolaus I Bernoulli
 3. Abraham De Moivre
 4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
 D. The publication and fate of AC
 
 
 Section III. The historical and conceptual background
 to AC.
 A. Part I. Business mathematics
 B. Part II. Combinations and permutations
 C. Part III. Relation to Montmort's work
 D. Part IV. Rhetoric, law, and theology.
 
 
 Section IV. Notes on this translation
 A. The translation in general
 B. Terms of probability
 C. Other special terms
 D. Mathematical notation
 
Translations of texts and notes.
 The Art of Conjecturing. English translation,
 1 
 
 Part I.
 
 
 Part II.
 
 
 Part III.
 
 
 Part IV.
 
 
 Translator's notes on The Art of Conjecturing
 N1 
 
 Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis. English
 Translation.
 L1 
 
 Thesis 32 of Theses Logicae de conversione et
 oppositione enunciationum.
 
 
 Notes on Letter to a Friend.
 LN1 
 
 Bibliography
 B1 
 
 Index
 I1 
 
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Mathematics.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Probabilities -- Early works to 1800.
Bernoulli, Jakob, 1654-1705.