The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability - Couverture souple

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Cardano, Gerolamo

 
9780486797939: The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability
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ISBN 10 : 0486797937 ISBN 13 : 9780486797939
Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2016

Synopsis

Gambling led 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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À propos de l'auteur

Mathematics was only one area of interest for Gerolamo Cardano (1521-76). The Italian astrologer, philosopher, physician, and scholar was also a prolific author and inveterate gambler. Dover also publishes Cardano's The Rules of Algebra.
Sydney Henry Gould is a mathematician and author of Russian for the Mathematician.
Samuel S. Wilks (1906-64) was a mathematician who taught at Princeton and made significant contributions to the field of mathematical statistics.

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Éditeur
Dover Publications Inc.
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0486797937
ISBN 13 
9780486797939
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Nombre de pages
64
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