Statistics Seminar: A Manuscript on Change by John Arbuthnot

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Author: Ruth Croxford
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 16:11

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Topic:    A Manuscript on Change by John Arbuthnot
Speaker:  David Bellhouse
Date:     Thursday, March 2, 1989, 4:00 p.m.
Place:    Room 2110, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St., U of Toronto

Abstract:
    The Gregory manuscript collection held by the University of Edinburgh
Library contains a treatise on chance written by John Arbuthnot (1667-1735).
The manuscript is dated 1694.  It contains two theorems and four problems which
are either generalizations of results in his 1692 book 'Of the Laws of Chance'
or anticipations of his 1710 significance test, the world's first, published
in 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.  The contents of the
manuscript indicate that Arbuthnot, better known for his literary
accomplishments in the creation of the character John Bull, was an able 
mathematician working on problems of current interest to probabilists.
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