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The game of probability : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr.
- 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
- Additional Authors
- Wiggins, Ellwood H., Jr.
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804768641 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804768658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 080476865X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012010489
- OCLC
- 781077747
- SCSB-11311755
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library