Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 Concerning Certainty and Uncertainty 21

3 Prevision and Probability 59

4 Conditional Prevision and Probability 113

5 The Evaluation of Probabilities 153

6 Distributions 187

7 A Preliminary Survey 251

8 Random Processes with Independent Increments 311

9 An Introduction to Other Types of Stochastic Process 393

10 Problems in Higher Dimensions 401

11 Inductive Reasoning; Statistical Inference 421

12 Mathematical Statistics 447

Appendix 475

Index 571

About the Author

Bruno de Finetti (1906 - 1985) is today recognized as the greatest Italian applied mathematician of the 20th century. He published extensively and acquired an international reputation in the small world of probability mathematicians. He is noted for his operational subjective conception of probability and for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables.