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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Cultural Memory in the Present
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Theology and the Law
- 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context
- 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances
- 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance
- 5. Probability Applied
- 6. Continued Proclamations
- 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival
- 8. Numbers and Tables in Narration
- 9. Novels and Tables
- 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel
- 11. "Improbable Probability"
- 12. The Appearance of Truth
- 13. "Probable" or "Plausible"
- 14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography