‘On the Theory of Probabilities, and in particular on Mitchell's Problem of the Distribution of the Fixed Stars,’ pp. 521-530 in: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Fourth Series, Vol. 1, No. 7 – Supplement, June, 1851.
London: Richard Taylor, 1851. First edition, journal issue in the original printed wrappers, of Boole’s first paper on probability. “Since about 1850, Boole had become increasingly interested in the mathematical theory of probability and more especially its philosophical aspects … In 1976, in his book Boole’s Logic and Probability, Theodore..... More
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