The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist by Rüdiger Campe

The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist

Cultural Memory in the Present

Rüdiger Campe with Ellwood Wiggins (Translator)

486 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary mathematics challenging informative medium-paced
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There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probabilit...

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