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Hasard et d\'eterminisme chez Laplace

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Abstract

Laplace's views on randomness and determinism. The paper was written for "Cahiers rationalistes" and addresses a rather wide audience. It contains large quotations of Laplace, most of them coming from his introduction to the book "Analytical theory of probabilities".

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@article{arxiv.0709.4382,
  title  = {Hasard et d\'eterminisme chez Laplace},
  author = {Jean-Pierre Kahane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4382},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Le contenu de l'article est paru, sous une forme un peu diff\'erente, en 1984, dans la revue "l'Ecole et la nation"

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