Article ID: CBB060199917

Belgium and probability in the nineteenth century: The case of Paul Mansion (2021)

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This paper explores how the Belgian mathematician Paul Mansion became interested in probability theory. In comparison to many other countries at the time, probability theory had a much stronger presence in Belgium. In addition, Mansion, who was an avowed Catholic militant, had found probability theory to be a useful means of reflecting on certain problems pertaining to determinism and randomness that were arising in scientific debates at the time. Mansion’s work took place during a time of consolidation of mathematical education in Belgium, as well as a new interest in probabilistic results and the foundation of the Institute for Philosophy in Louvain by his friend Désiré Mercier. The present paper addresses how these aspects intersected at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Deruyttere, Michel
Droesbeke, Jean-Jacques
García Alonso, Marta
Goodrum, Matthew R.
Hammond, Nicholas
Hedesan, Georgiana D.
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Economic History Review
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
Mohr Siebeck
Springer
Concepts
Science and religion
Probability and statistics
Mathematics
Theology
Medicine
Social sciences
People
Bernoulli, Jakob
Babbage, Charles
Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig
Coignet, Michel
De Moivre, Abraham
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Belgium
France
Great Britain
Germany
Greece
Luxembourg
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Société de Statistique de Paris
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