Games, Gods and Gambling

Title Page
Preface
CONTENTS
1 The Development of the Random Event
2 Divination
3 The Probable
4 Early Beginnings
5 Tartaglia and Cardano
6 Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae
7 Galileo
8 Fermat and Pascal
9 The Arithemtic Triangle and Correspondence Between Fermat and Pascal
10 Bills of Mortality
11 Christianus Huygens
12 Wallis, Newton and Pepys
13 James Bernoulli and "Ars Conjectandi"
14 Pierre Remond de Montmort and the "Essai d'Analyse"
15 Abraham de Moivre and the "Doctrine of Chances"
Appendix I: Memorable Arithmetic
Appendix 2: Sopra Le Scoperte Dei Dadi
Appendix 3: Marin Mersenne
Appendix 4: Letters Between Fermat, Pascal and Carcavi
Appendix 5: From the Doctrine of Chances
INDEX