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Games, Gods & Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas by F. N. David ISBN: 0486400239 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 click here to see this book 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. Table of Contents for Games, Gods & Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas Chapter 1 The development of the random event 2 Divination 3 The probable 4 Early beginnings 5 Tartaglia and Cardano 6 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae 7 Galileo 8 Fermat and Pascal 9 The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between Fermat and Pascal 10 Bills of Mortality 11 Christianus Huygens 12 "Wallis, Newton and Pepys" 13 James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi 14 Pierre-Rémond de Montmort and The Essai d' Analyse 15 Abraham de Moivre and The Doctrine of Chances Appendix 1 Buckley's Memorable Arithmetic Translated by Jean Edmiston 2 Galileo's Sopra le Scoperte dei Dadi Translated by E. H. Thorne 3 Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne Translated by Maxine Merrington 4 Letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi Translated from Oeuvres de Fermat by Maxine Merrington 5 From the Doctrine of Chances by A. de Moivre Index

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