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Jacob Bernoulli and the Mathematics of Tennis (2013)

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Jacob Bernoulli's Lettre à un Amy sur les Parties du Jeu de Paume employs the sorts of mathematical techniques that had been applied to games of chance by Pascal and Huygens to a game, now called Court Tennis or Royal Tennis, the outcomes of which depended, as he thought, not on chance but on athletic skill. He assumed that the players' relative strengths could be determined a posteriori or by observation. Bernoulli's work shows an alternate route by which mathematics was applied to the real world in the seventeenth century, one which did not involve Platonic conceptions of the role of mathematics, but rather the techniques of commercial arithmetic and, in particular, of algebra.

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Article Angelini, Annarita (2013) Praecisio and Conjecture: Cusanus' Ball Game and the “Learned Ignorance” of the World. Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 5). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Angelini, Annarita
Armatte, Michel
Beretta, Marco
Bernoulli, Jacob
Bru, Bernard
Campos, Daniel G.
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
College Mathematics Journal
Historia Mathematica
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Birkhäuser
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Tennis
Calculus
Science and sports
Science and religion
People
Bernoulli, Jakob
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Bernoulli, family
Bernoulli, Johann
Galilei, Galileo
Archimedes
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
15th century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Germany
Great Britain
France
Italy
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