A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

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Summary: Interesting book, but not for everyone
Review: I recommend this book to people with a science background that want a little light reading. This will probably not be very appealing to the layman.

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Summary: Interesting and different book
Review: This nontechnical writing is quite different from others. There are mathematical formulas, but they are expressed in words, without symbols. The interesting is that Laplace motivates the use of probability theory with exemples of all branches of human knowledge. More than this, he argue that the entire system of human knowledge is conected with that theory, because most important problems of human life are problems in probability. This book is an opportunity to read an original and historical "introduction" to Laplace's work on probability theory.