Cardano: The Gambling Scholar

by Øystein Ore, ystein Ore, Oystein Ore

Book Overview

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 his Book on Games of Chance and embellished them with essays on the tricks of cheats and kibitzers, as well as on psychological rules of play...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691654298
• ISBN13: 9780691654294
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"