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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.