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Cardano : the gambling scholar /

Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple rules of probability for his own benefit and for his gambling contemporaries. These he collected in hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ore, Øystein, 1899-1968 (Author)
Other Authors: Gould, Sydney H. (Sydney Henry), 1909- (Translator), Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Princeton legacy library ; 5063.
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