Games, Gods and Gambling
The 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.
GenresBusiness & EconomicsDevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguistics
291 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1987 by Oxford University Press, Incorporated · ISBN 9780195205664
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2 editions
English
- Games, gods and gambling · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 1987 · ISBN 9780195205664 This page
- Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas · Dover Publications · 1998 · ISBN 9780486400235
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