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Games, gods and gambling : the origins and history of probability and statistical ideas from the earliest times to the Newtonian era /

Основен автор: David, F. N. 1909-1993.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Hafner Pub. Co., 1962.
Предмети:
Probabilities > History.
Games of chance (Mathematics) > History.
Statistics > History.
Съдържание:
  • The development of the random event
  • Divination
  • The probable
  • Early beginnings
  • Tartaglia and Cardano
  • Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae
  • Galileo
  • Fermat and Pascal
  • The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between Fermat and Pascal
  • Bills of mortality
  • Christianus Huygens
  • Wallis, Newton and Pepys
  • James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi
  • Pierre-Rémond de Montmort and The Essai d'Analyse
  • Abraham de Moivre and The Doctrine of Chances
  • Appendix: Buckley's Memorable Arithmetic
  • Galileo's Sopra le Scoperte dei Dadi
  • Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne
  • Letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi
  • From The Doctrine of Chances by A. de Moivre.

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