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The Book on Games of Chance

work by Cardano

Also known as: “Liber de ludo aleae”

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In Girolamo Cardano
…Liber de ludo aleae (The Book on Games of Chance) presents the first systematic computations of probabilities, a century before Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat. Cardano’s popular fame was based largely on books dealing with scientific and philosophical questions, especially De subtilitate rerum (“The Subtlety of Things”), a…
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