Games of chance according to Leibniz

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(92)90073-KMaRDI QIDQ1194113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maria Sol de Mora-Charles

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(92)90073-k

zbMATH Keywords

games of chance history of probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of probability theory (60-03)

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The author publishes Leibniz's MSS ``Du jeu du quinquenove (1678), ``Le jeu du solitaire (ca. 1678), and ``Jeu des productions (1698, an invented game). He points out several mistakes made by Leibniz (e.g., enumeration of combinations rather than permutations) and emphasizes Leibniz's approach to games of change which enable to ``perfectionner l'art d'inventer. He does not mention that Leibniz 1) made a similar statement in his ``Neue Abhandlungen über den menschlichen Verstand or 2) effectively used the ``classical definition of probability and offered a definition of the ratio of probabilities. I do not understand the author's diagrams and do not know what he means by stating that Leibniz's MSS ``se trouvent\dots sous la cote of Brouillon LH XXXV.

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