Cardano and the gambler’s habitus |
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| Authors: | Lambert Williams |
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| Institution: | Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Wilhelmstrasse 44, 10117 Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | 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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| Keywords: | Girolamo Cardano Probability Gambling |
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