Pascal's Problem: The 'Gambler's Ruin'

DOI10.2307/1402732zbMath0502.60002OpenAlexW2312994949WikidataQ56270913 ScholiaQ56270913MaRDI QIDQ3968214

A. W. F. Edwards

Publication date: 1983

Published in: International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1402732

zbMATH Keywords

history of probabilitygambler's ruin problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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