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A Letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on Probability (2018)

Verburgt, Lukas M. (Author)

British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Volume: 33
Issue: 2
Pages: 96-108

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2018.1437244

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2018.1437244

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Primary literature (historical sources) Mathematics Probability and statistics 19th century Walton, William Ellis, Robert Leslie

The paper discusses the background to and provides a transcription of a letter from Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–59) to William Walton (1813–1901) of 1849 on probability theory.

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