The Game of Probability - Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (Hardcover, New)

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity.
"The Game of Probability" revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century probabilistic revolution, providing a history of the relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques, between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution that overthrew the order of things, notably the way that science and art positioned themselves with respect to reality, and its participants included a wide variety of people from as many walks of life. Campe devotes chapters to them in turn. Focusing on the interpretation of games of chance as the model for probability and on the reinterpretation of aesthetic form as verisimilitude (a critical question for theoreticians of that new literary genre, the novel), the scope alone of Campe's book argues for probability's crucial role in the constitution of modernity.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date:	2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Rudiger Campe
Translators:	Ellwood Wiggins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	504
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-6864-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-8047-6864-1
Barcode:	9780804768641

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