A treatise on probability
London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1929. 8vo. xi, [i], 466 pp., including index and an extensive bibliography, plus 2 pages publisher’s advertisements. SECOND EDITION. Original brown cloth; an excellent, clean copy. Item #16164
Second edition of this mathematical-philosophical work, first published in 1921, in which Keynes sought to establish a mathematical basis for the theory of probability, as Russell and Whitehead had done for symbolic logic. According to Russell (quoted in DSB), “in this work . . . the mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful considering the restricted premises which form its foundation . . . the book as a whole is one which is impossible to praise too highly.” In addition, the book is important for its bibliography of over 600 works on probability.
Price: $300.00