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Pathways to probability : history of the mathematics of certainty and chance / 6 6 Amy C. King, Cecil B. Read. - - - 139 pages : illustrations, portraits., diagrams. 22 cm. - - - - - . - [Holt library of science] . - 0 . - . - Holt library of science. 0 .



Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index

Are the odds against you? -- Early glimpses -- Arrangements and combinations -- The dabbler and the antagonist -- The odds of life -- The Brothers Bernoulli -- Calculating the risk -- Mr. Euler and his contemporaries -- Buffon and Bayes -- Lagrange, Laplace, and later -- Present patterns -- A child of probability -- Applying probability.

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