Book on Games of Chance (eBook)

Gerolamo Cardano (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
64 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-80898-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Mathematics was only one area of interest for Gerolamo Cardano ― the sixteenth-century astrologer, philosopher, and physician was also a prolific author and inveterate gambler. Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he was the first writer to recognize that random events are governed by mathematical laws. Published posthumously in 1663, Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae (Book on Games of Chance) is often considered the major starting point of the study of mathematical probability. The Italian scholar formulated some of the field's basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat. Although his book had no direct influence on other early thinkers about probability, it remains an important antecedent to later expressions of the science's tenets.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Recreational Math
• Übersetzer: Sydney Henry Gould
• Vorwort: Samuel S. Wilks
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 100 g
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Schlagworte: 16th century scholarship • antecedents of gaming • aristotle on gambling • Cards • dice • fundamental principle of gambling • Gambling • gambling probabilities • games of chance • Game Theory • history of mathematic probabilities • mathematical probabilities • mathematical probability • Mathematics • mathematics in gaming • number probabilities • pascal and fermat • poker and math • Probability • random events governed by mathematical laws • random events in gaming • study of probability • the mathematics of poker
• ISBN-10: 0-486-80898-X / 048680898X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-80898-7 / 9780486808987