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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Cardano and Games of Chance (1564) | |
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Galileo and a Discovery Concerning Dice (1620) | |
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The Chevalier de M�r� Problem I: The Problem of Dice (1654) | |
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The Chevalier de M�r� Problem H: The Problem of Points (1654) | |
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Huygens and the Gambler's Ruin (1657) | |
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The Pepys-Newton Connection (1693) | |
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Rencontres with Montmort (1708) | |
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Jacob Bernoulli and his Golden Theorem (1713) | |
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De Moivre's Problem (1730) | |
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De Moivre, Gauss, and the Normal Curve (1730, 1809) | |
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Daniel Bernoulli and the St Petersburg Problem (1738) | |
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d'Alembert and the "Croix ou Pile" Article (1754) | |
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d'Alembert and the Gambler's Fallacy (1761) | |
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Bayes, Laplace, and Philosophies of Probability (1764, 1774) | |
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Leibniz's Error (1768) | |
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The Buffon Needle Problem (1777) | |
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Bertrand's Ballot Problem (1887) | |
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Bertrand's Strange Three Boxes (1889) | |
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Bertrand's Chords (1889) | |
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Three Coins and a Puzzle from Galton (1894) | |
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Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem No. 72 (1894) | |
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Borel and a Different Kind of Normality (1909) | |
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Borel's Paradox and Kolmogorov's Axioms (1909, 1933) | |
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Of Borel, Monkeys, and the New Creationism (1913) | |
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Kraitchik's Neckties and Newcomb's Problem (1930, 1960) | |
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Fisher and the Lady Tasting Tea (1935) | |
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Benford and the Peculiar Behavior of the First Significant Digit (1938) | |
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Coinciding Birthdays (1939) | |
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L�vy and the Arc Sine Law (1939) | |
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Simpson's Paradox (1951) | |
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Gamow, Stern, and Elevators (1958) | |
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Monty-Hall, Cars, and Goats (1975) | |
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Parrondo's Perplexing Paradox (1996) | |
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Bibliography | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Index | |