The Doctrine of Chances

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Probabilistic aspects of gambling

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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 find 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 theory. Indeed, some of the earliest works on probability include Girolamo Cardano's Liber de Ludo Aleae (The Book on Games of Chance, written circa 1565, published 1663), Christiaan Huygens's "De ratiociniis in ludo aleae" ("On reckoning in games of chance," 1657), Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conjecting, written circa 1690, published 1713), Pierre Remond de Montmort's Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hasard (Analytical Essay on Games of Chance, 1708, 1713), and Abraham De Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances (1718, 1738, 1756). Gambling also had a major influence on 20th century probability theory, as it provided the motivation for the concept of a martingale.

Author: Ethier, Stewart N.

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13636055

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Springer
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Reference books
Manufacturer no.
12198023
Release date
24.8.2020

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