BERNOUILLI, JEAN (JOHN).

Mémoire sur un Probleme de la Doctrine du Hazard.

(Berlin, Haude & Spener, 1770). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles- Lettres", tome XXIV, pp. 384-408 and 1 table. Fine and clean.

First Edition. - This paper concerns the following problem: Any number of persons of one same age, half men, half women, are married together the same year, to find the probability that, the half of this complete number of married persons being dead, all the marriages will be broken. - Todhunter: History of the Theory of Probability 624 (p. 335).

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