Gerolamo Cardano

The Book on Games of Chance: the 16th Century Treatise on Probability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Dover Recreational Math
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 164mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 106g
• ISBN-13: 9780486797939
• ISBN-10: 0486797937
• Artikelnr.: 42801751

Autorenporträt

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.