卡达诺：博彩学者

卡达诺是当时最伟大的医生维萨留斯的第二位，也是一位忠诚而熟练的赌徒，他为个人的快乐和利益而赌博。他的数学天才使他能够为自己和同时代的博彩者设计出简单的概率规则。他在自己的《机会游戏》一书中收集了这些内容，并用关于骗子和恶作剧的技巧以及游戏的心理规则的文章加以修饰。
在这本关于文艺复兴时期一位风雨飘摇的人物的传记中，卡达诺的赌博研究首次被解读，并附上了《机会游戏》一书的译本。
最初出版于1953年。
Cardano: The Gambling Scholar
Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple rules of probability for his own benefit and for his gambling contemporaries. These he collected in his Book on Games of Chance and embellished them with essays on the tricks of cheats and kibitzers, as well as on psychological rules of play.
In this biography of a stormy Renaissance personality, Cardano’s gambling studies are deciphered for the first time, and a translation of the Book on Games of Chance is appended.
Originally published in 1953.

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