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Cardano: The Gambling Scholar - Princeton Legacy Library
Øystein Ore
Cardano: The Gambling Scholar - Princeton Legacy Library
Øystein Ore
Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple rules of probability for his own benefit and for his gambling contemporaries. These he collected in his Book on Games of Chance and embellished them wit
268 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 21, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780691607085 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Dimensions | 233 × 157 × 17 mm · 416 g |
Language | English |
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