| The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist Contributor(s): Campe, Rüdiger (Author), Wiggins, Ellwood (Translator) |
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ISBN: 080476865X ISBN-13: 9780804768658 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Mathematics |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2012010489 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.50 lbs) 504 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |