The Doctrine of Chances Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling /

• Main Author: Ethier, Stewart N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Probability and its Applications,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Game theory.; Probabilities.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two of the first books on probability theory, then called the doctrine of chances, emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This volume, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classi...