The Doctrine of Chances : Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling Paperback / softback
by Stewart N. Ethier
Part of the Probability and Its Applications series
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I have found many thousands more readers than I ever looked for.
I have no right to say to these, You shall not ?nd fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to tell the truth.
If there is not that, there is nothing. William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis This is a monograph/textbook on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, intended for those already familiar with probability at the post-calculus, p- measure-theory level.
Gambling motivated much of the early development of probability the- 1 ory (David 1962).
Indeed, some of the earliest works on probability include Girolamo Cardano's [1501-1576] Liber de Ludo Aleae (The Book on Games of Chance, written c. 1565, published 1663), Christiaan Huygens's [1629- 1695] "De ratiociniis in ludo aleae" ("On reckoning in games of chance," 1657), Jacob Bernoulli's [1654-1705]Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conject- ing, written c. 1690, published 1713), Pierre R emond de Montmort's [1678- 1719] Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hasard (Analytical Essay on Games of Chance, 1708, 1713), and Abraham De Moivre's [1667-1754]TheDoctrineof Chances (1718, 1738, 1756).
Gambling also had a major in?uence on 20- century probability theory, as it provided the motivation for the concept of a martingale.
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- Publication Date:23/08/2016
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:816 pages, XIV, 816 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:23/08/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783662501672