TY - BOOK AU - King, Amy C. AU - Read, Cecil B. ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : history of the mathematics of certainty and chance SN - 2 PY - 1963///];copyright 196346 CY - New York PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - History KW - Probabilities.;Mathematics N1 - 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; 5 ER -