The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist /

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 probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scienti...

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Main Author: Campe, Rüdiger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central