Dice games

DOI10.1214/17-STS640MaRDI QIDQ1799352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marie-France Bru, Bernard Bru

Publication date 18 October 2018

Published in Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1525313147

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{De vetula}dice gameshistory of probabilityHuygensJacob BernoulliLaplaceMontmortnormal approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Combinatorial probability (60C05) History of statistics (62-03) 2-person games (91A05)

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