The problem of coincidences

DOI10.1007/BF00327875zbMath0434.01006MaRDI QIDQ1139573

Lajos Takács

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00327875

zbMATH Keywords

game of thirteen; problem of coincidences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

60-03: History of probability theory

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