Pathways to probability : history of the mathematics of certainty and chance - King, Amy C. 4 0 16; (Cecil Byron), Read, Cecil B.; 5 (New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index
Keywords: 2 -- 0; 6; History. -- Probabilities.;Mathematics -- 20; 20; 2