Casanova's Lottery : The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Stigler, Stephen M
• Contents: Introduction One Casanova Two The Genoese Lottery Three The Establishment of the Loterie Four Problems and Adjustments in the Early Drawings Five Antoine Blanquet and the Great Expansion of 1776 Six The Introduction of Bonus Numbers: Les Primes Gratuites Seven The Spread of the Loterie in Europe Eight Data Security: The Design of the Tickets Nine The Loterie and the Revolution Ten Was the Loterie Fair? Eleven Dreams and Astrology: The Bettors and the Loterie Twelve The Number 45 and the Maturity of Chances Thirteen How Much Did They Bet, and Where? Fourteen Muskets, Fine-Tuned Risk, and Voltaire Fifteen The Loterie in Textbooks and Manuals Sixteen The Suppression of the Loterie in 1836 Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix 1. Probability Appendix 2. Laplace's Lottery Theorem References Index.
• Publisher Details: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: History -- General; History -- Europe -- France; Mathematics -- History & Philosophy; Games -- Gambling -- Lotteries; Games -- General
• Languages: ng
• ISBNs: 9780226820781
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