"It will be seen that I have ventured to survey a very extensive field of mathematical research. It has been my aim to estimate carefully and impartially the character and the merit of the memoirs and works which I have examined; my criticism has been intentionally close and searching, but I trust never irreverent nor unjust. I have sometimes explained fully the errors which I detected; sometimes... I have given only a brief indication which may be serviceable... I have not hesitated to introduce remarks and developments of my own whenever the subject seemed to require them. ...such additions as I have been able to make tend to render the subject more intelligible and more complete, without disturbing in any serious degree the continuity of the history."
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I. Todhunter, A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to that of Laplace (1865).
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