Description: A Treatise On ProbabilityJohn Maynard KeynesPublished by Macmillan and Co., London, 1921.Very Good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. xi, [1], 466, [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, slight spine canter and small tear to spine cover, clean unmarked text, no previous owner’s signature or bookplate, edges gently bumped, tear & small chip to pages 155/156 a very good copy. The foundational work of probability theory, which helped establish the author's enormous influence on modern economic and even political theories. Exploring aspects of randomness and chance, inductive reasoning and logical statistics, this is a work that belongs in the library of any interested in numbers and their application in the real world.Keynes's third published book and his principal mathematical-philosophical work, a substantial expansion on the subject of his fellowship dissertation, in which he sought to establish a mathematical basis for probability theory as Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead had done for symbolic logic in their Principia Mathematica. 'What Keynes sought to do in the book was to extend the principles of valid thought to arguments that were not conclusive and certain but to which it was rational to attach some weight: matters of belief and opinion based on limited knowledge and subject to uncertainty. Probability was always relative to the evidence available and changed if the knowledge available changed. It had to do with what it was rational to believe, not with truth. On this basis Keynes examined a succession of issues including induction, statistical inference, and the bearing of probability on conduct'The work contains a valuable bibliography of some 600 works on probability.Loc: E12StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackKEYNES ECONOMICS PROBABILITY MATHEMATICS PHILOSOPHY 1921 1st ED THEORY J MAYNARD A Treatise On ProbabilityJohn Maynard KeynesPublished by Macmillan and Co., London, 1921.Very Good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. xi, [1], 466, [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, slight spine canter and small tear to spine cover, clean unmarked text, no previous owner’s signature or bookplate, edges gently bumped, tear & small chip to pages 155/156 a very good copy. The foundational work of probability theory, which helped establish the author's enormous influence on modern economic and even political theories. Exploring aspects of randomness and chance, inductive reasoning and logical statistics, this is a work that belongs in the library of any interested in numbers and their application in the real world.Keynes's third published book and his principal mathematical-philosophical work, a substantial expansion on the subject of his fellowship dissertation, in which he sought to establish a mathematical basis for probability theory as Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead had done for symbolic logic in their Principia Mathematica. 'What Keynes sought to do in the book was to extend the principles of valid thought to arguments that were not conclusive and certain but to which it was rational to attach some weight: matters of belief and opinion based on limited knowledge and subject to uncertainty. Probability was always relative to the evidence available and changed if the knowledge available changed. It had to do with what it was rational to believe, not with truth. On this basis Keynes examined a succession of issues including induction, statistical inference, and the bearing of probability on conduct'The work contains a valuable bibliography of some 600 works on probability.Loc: E12
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