Article ID: CBB000501552

Cardano and the Gambler's Habitus (2005)

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Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae is subjected to a reappraisal based largely on considerations of practice in the 16th century gambling arena. It is argued that Cardano's purported failure to secure the foundations of a rigorous probability calculus can be explained as something that occurred precisely because of his gambling exposure, not in spite of it.

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Authors & Contributors
Confalonieri, Sara
Boriaud, Jean-Yves
Rommevaux-Tani, Sabine
Guillemet, Julien Won Woo
Brooks, Michael
Zhao, Jiwei
Concepts
Mathematics
Equations and formulae
Probability and statistics
Physics
Medicine
Games
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
Early modern
20th century
15th century
Places
Italy
Nuremberg (Germany)
Milan (Italy)
Germany
France
Europe
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