Christiaan Huygens

Ivo Schneider

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 23-28 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Trained to become a diplomat, a career which did not eventuate due to political circumstances, Christiaan Huygens turned to science and mathematics. While in Paris, he heard of Pascal’s and Fermat’s attempts to solve gaming problems. Back in Holland he conceived his calculus of expectations which considerably influenced the following generation of probabilists.

Keywords: Gambling Problem; Private Tutor; Political Circumstance; Single Game; Pendulum Clock (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4613-0179-0_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781461301790

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().