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The book on games of chance: the 16th-century treatise on probability

Cardano, GerolamoWilks, Samuel S.(Foreword by)Gould, Sydney Henry(Translated by)
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Gambling led Gerolamo Cardano to the study of probability, and he formulated some basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat.

This volume was published posthumously in 1663.

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Dover Publications, Inc.
048680898X / 9780486808987
eBook (EPUB)
306.482
04/11/2015
English
1 pages
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