The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Cultural Memory in the Present)

The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Cultural Memory in the Present)

by EllwoodWiggins (Translator), RudigerCampe (Author)

Synopsis

This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 486
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 15 Jan 2013

ISBN 10: 0804768641
ISBN 13: 9780804768641