Research Catalog

Title

The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr.

Author

Campe, Rüdiger

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

486 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural memory in the present

Uniform Title

• Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit. English
• Cultural memory in the present.

Alternative Title

Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit.

Subject

• European literature > 17th century > History and criticism
• European literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Probability in literature

Note

• "Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Theology and the law : dice in the air -- Numbers and calculus in context : the game of decision; Pascal -- Writing the calculation of chances : justice and fair game; Huygens -- Probability, a postscript for the doctrine of chances : logic and contractual law; Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf -- Probability applied : ancient topoi and the theory of games of chance; Jacob Bernoulli -- Continued proclamation : the law of logica probabilium; Leibniz -- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or the improbability of survival -- Numbers and tables in narration : jurists and clergymen and their bureaucratic hobbies -- Novels and tables : Defoe's A journal of the plague year; Schnabel's Felsenburg Island -- The theory of probability and the form of the novel : Daniel Bernoulli on utility value, the anthropology of risk, and Gellert's epistolary fiction -- 'Improbable probability' : the theory of the novel and its trope; Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon -- The appearance of truth : logic, aesthetics, and experimentation; Lambert -- 'Probable' or 'plausible' : mathematical formula versus philosophical discourse; Kant -- Kleist's improbable veracities, or, a romantic ending.

Call Number

JFE 13-433

ISBN

• 9780804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804768658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080476865X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012010489

OCLC

781077747

Author

Campe, Rüdiger, author.

Title

The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr.

Imprint

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural memory in the present

Cultural memory in the present.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-433