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.

• Foreword ixPreface xiii1 Introduction 12 Concerning Certainty and Uncertainty 213 Prevision and Probability 594 Conditional Prevision and Probability 1135 The Evaluation of Probabilities 1536 Distributions 1877 A Preliminary Survey 2518 Random Processes with Independent Increments 3119 An Introduction to Other Types of Stochastic Process 39310 Problems in Higher Dimensions 40111 Inductive Reasoning; Statistical Inference 42112 Mathematical Statistics 447Appendix 475Index 571

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.

• Foreword ixPreface xiii1 Introduction 12 Concerning Certainty and Uncertainty 213 Prevision and Probability 594 Conditional Prevision and Probability 1135 The Evaluation of Probabilities 1536 Distributions 1877 A Preliminary Survey 2518 Random Processes with Independent Increments 3119 An Introduction to Other Types of Stochastic Process 39310 Problems in Higher Dimensions 40111 Inductive Reasoning; Statistical Inference 42112 Mathematical Statistics 447Appendix 475Index 571

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.

• Foreword ixPreface xiii1 Introduction 12 Concerning Certainty and Uncertainty 213 Prevision and Probability 594 Conditional Prevision and Probability 1135 The Evaluation of Probabilities 1536 Distributions 1877 A Preliminary Survey 2518 Random Processes with Independent Increments 3119 An Introduction to Other Types of Stochastic Process 39310 Problems in Higher Dimensions 40111 Inductive Reasoning; Statistical Inference 42112 Mathematical Statistics 447Appendix 475Index 571