KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance : Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh.
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance : Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh. FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922).
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance : Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh.
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability . London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance : Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh. FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' ( Mathematical Gazette , July 1922).
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