Works
- Quaestiones nonnullae de usuris, Acta Eruditorum, 1690
- Ars Conjectandi, Basel, published after his death, 1713
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A Swiss mathematician whose Ars Conjectandi founded the mathematical theory of probability, with its treatment of permutations and combinations and the first proof of a law of large numbers. In working out a compound-interest question in 1683, published in 1690, he found the limit now written as the constant e.