Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [Foundations of the mathematical theory of probability].
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1846. First edition, very rare, of the first Russian work on probability. “The prime impetus for the initial development in the 1820s of probability theory in the Russian Empire (putting aside the eighteenth-century contributions of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli) was the need for..... More
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