[Rarebooks] fa: On CALCULATING ANNUITIES & THE THEORY OF CHANCES and PROBABILITIES 1828

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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J[ohn] W[illiam] Lubbock: On the Calculation of Annuities, and on some Questions in the Theory of Chances. 1828 [AND] On the Comparison of various Tables of Annuities. 1829. [BOUND WITH:] Augustus de Morgan: On a Question in the Theory of Probabilities. 1837. [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1830, 1838.] Three complete papers extracted from broken volumes of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and bound together in blue french wraps; p. 141-154; 321-341; 423-430 (43 pp. total), plus 23 folding tables (complete).

Three separate and complete papers delivered at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. The two papers by Lubbock are accompanied by a total of twenty-three tables on fifteen folding leaves. John (later Sir John) William Lubbock, only twenty-five at the time the first paper was written, went on to be a prominent banker and barrister as well as a respected mathematician and astronomer. Augustus de Morgan was the first professor of mathematics at London University. Light toning to the edges of the text block, a few tiny insignificant spots, otherwise very clean and fresh and firmly bound in modern wraps.