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2. Bernoulli, Daniel [1]. ?Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis,? Commentarii Acad. Scient. Petropolis, Vol. 5 (1730?1731), publ. 1738, 175?192. An abridged version of this which omitted algebraic calculations, etc., was published in German as ?Auszug aus dem Versuch einer neuen Lehre von dem Maase der Glückspiele,? Hamburgisches Magazin, Bd. 1, Stück V (1747), 73?90. Another German translation was published by A. Pringsheim, with an introduction by L. Fick, as Versuch einer neuen Theorie der Wertbestimmung von Glucksfällen, Leipzig, 1896. An English translation by L. Sommer, with notes by K. Menger, appeared as ?Exposition of a new theory of the measurement of risk,? Econometrica, Vol. 22 (1954), 23?36.
3. Bernoulli, Jakob [1]. Ars Conjectandi..., Die Werke von Jakob Bernoulli, herausgegeben von der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, Bd. 3, Basel, 1975. In addition to Bernoulli's work on probability, this volume contains important reissues, translations, and reprints of other early works on probability theory as well as interesting commentaries.
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