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Description

Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he formulated of some of the field's basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat. Published posthumously in 1663, this volume had no direct influence on other early thinkers about probability but remains an important antecedent to later expressions of the science's tenets.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
January 29th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
64
Dimensions
153x230x3
ISBN-13
9780486797939
Product ID
23139116

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