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Buffon, Price, and Laplace: Scientific attribution in the 18th century

✍ Scribed by S. L. Zabell

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 577 KB
Volume: 39
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-9519
DOI: 10.1007/bf00348442

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