Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical IdeasThe development of gambling techniques led to the beginning of modern statistics, and this absorbing history illustrates the science's rise with vignettes from the lives of Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, and others. Fascinating allusions to the classics, archaeology, biography, poetry, and fiction endow this volume with universal appeal. 1962 edition. |
Contents
The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between | 87 |
Bills of Mortality | 98 |
Christianus Huygens | 110 |
Wallis Newton and Pepys | 123 |
James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi | 130 |
PierreRémond de Montmort and The Essai dAnalyse | 140 |
Abraham de Moivre and The Doctrine of Chances | 161 |
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Interpreting Fear, Crime, Risk, and Unsafety: Conceptualisation and Measurement Gabry Vanderveen No preview available - 2006 |
The Mental Models Theory of Reasoning: Refinements and Extensions Walter Schaeken No preview available - 2007 |