E628 -- Eclaircissemens sur le memoire de Mr de La Grange insere dans le V volume des Melanges de Turin, concernant la methode de prendre le milieu entre les resultats de plusiers observations etc.
(Explanations on the memoir of Mr. de La Grange inserted in the 5th volume of the Melanges of Turin
concerning the method of taking the mean among the results of several observations etc.)
Summary:
This is Euler's response to Joseph Louis Lagrange's paper "Memoire sur l'utilite de la methode de prendre milieu entre les
resultats de plusiers observations."
Page 289 reads: “Présenté à l’academie le 27 Nov. 1777”.
Publication:
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Originally published in Nova acta academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 3, 1788, pp. 289-297
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 7, pp. 425 - 434
Documents Available:
- Original Publication: E628
- Richard Pulskamp has put together a fantastic page on Euler's Probability & Statistics, including a lot of interesting background and historical work. The page includes a
translation of E628.
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