Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas

Publisher:

Dover Publications

Publication Date:

1998

Number of Pages:

320

Format:

Paperback

Price:

12.95

ISBN:

978-0486400235

Category:

Monograph

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1 The development of the random event
2 Divination
3 The probable
4 Early beginnings
5 Tartaglia and Cardano
6 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae
7 Galileo
8 Fermat and Pascal
9 The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between Fermat and Pascal
10 Bills of Mortality
11 Christianus Huygens
12 "Wallis, Newton and Pepys"
13 James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi
14 Pierre-Rémond de Montmort and The Essai d' Analyse
15 Abraham de Moivre and The Doctrine of Chances
Appendix
1 Buckley's Memorable Arithmetic
		Translated by Jean Edmiston
2 Galileo's Sopra le Scoperte dei Dadi
		Translated by E. H. Thorne
3 Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne
		Translated by Maxine Merrington
4 Letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi
		Translated from Oeuvres de Fermat by Maxine Merrington
5 From the Doctrine of Chances by A. de Moivre
Index