Displaying 1 of 1 1998 Format: Book Author: David, F. N. (Florence Nightingale), 1909-1993. Title: Games, Gods, and Gambling : A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas / F.N. David. Publisher, Date: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 1998. Description: xvi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subjects: Probabilities -- History. Games of chance (Mathematics) -- History. Statistics -- History. Notes: "An unabridged republication of the work first published by Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd., London, in 1962"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The development of the random event -- Divination -- The probable -- Early beginnings -- Tartaglia and Cardano -- Cardano and Liber de ludo aleae -- Galileo -- Fermat and Pascal -- The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between Fermat and Pascal -- Bills of mortality -- Christianus Huygens -- Wallis, Newton and Pepys -- James Bernoulli and Ars conjectandi -- Pierre-Remond de Montmort and The essai d'analyse -- Abraham de Moivre and The doctrine of chances. Appendices: Buckley's Memorable arithmetic; Galileo's Sopra le scoperte dei dadi; Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne; letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi; From the doctrine of chances by A. de Moivre. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 97046416 ISBN: 0486400239 9780486400235 Other Number: 37955665 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 60775 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 519.2 David Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
