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Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas
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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 |
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Translated by Jean Edmiston |
2 Galileo's Sopra le Scoperte dei Dadi |
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Translated by E. H. Thorne |
3 Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne |
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Translated by Maxine Merrington |
4 Letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi |
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Translated from Oeuvres de Fermat by Maxine Merrington |
5 From the Doctrine of Chances by A. de Moivre |
Index |
Dummy View - NOT TO BE DELETED