Cardano: The Gambling Scholar
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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 with essays on the tricks of cheats and kibitzers, as well as on psychological rules of play...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691654298
ISBN13:9780691654294
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:268 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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