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(History / Blaise Pascal). Chevalier de Méré (1607 / 1684) "Posthumous works of the Chevalier de Méré. Of the true honesty, of the eloquence and the maintenance, of the delicacy in the things and in the expression, the trade in the world ". Paris, by Jean and Michel Guignard. 1700. In-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with decorated nerves. Color endpapers. (28 pp) 356 pages ( 28 pp). Nice engraved bookplate. Leather a little dry, corners slightly rubbed, headband a little short, light rings at the beginning of the book (preface) and a little more pronounced at the edge of the last leaves of the table. First edition. "It is indeed the chevalier de Méré who incited Blaise Pascal to take an interest in probabilities. According to Simeon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) in his Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile, précédées des règles générales du calcul de probabilités (Paris 1837), "a problem relating to games of chance, proposed to an austere Jansenist by a man of the world, was at the origin of the Calcul des Probabilités. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) relates the anecdote more soberly: "The Chevalier de Méré, a man with a penetrating mind, who was a gambler and a philosopher, [...] provided the occasion for these studies by asking questions about probability, to know how a game would be solved if it were interrupted at a certain point. With this he aroused the interest of Pascal, his friend, who examined the question." G. Giorello / C. Sinigaglia in " Pour la science " 1999 n° 32.
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(History / Blaise Pascal). Chevalier de Méré (1607 / 1684) "Posthumous works of the Chevalier de Méré. Of the true honesty, of the eloquence and the maintenance, of the delicacy in the things and in the expression, the trade in the world ". Paris, by Jean and Michel Guignard. 1700. In-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with decorated nerves. Color endpapers. (28 pp) 356 pages ( 28 pp). Nice engraved bookplate. Leather a little dry, corners slightly rubbed, headband a little short, light rings at the beginning of the book (preface) and a little more pronounced at the edge of the last leaves of the table. First edition. "It is indeed the chevalier de Méré who incited Blaise Pascal to take an interest in probabilities. According to Simeon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) in his Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile, précédées des règles générales du calcul de probabilités (Paris 1837), "a problem relating to games of chance, proposed to an austere Jansenist by a man of the world, was at the origin of the Calcul des Probabilités. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) relates the anecdote more soberly: "The Chevalier de Méré, a man with a penetrating mind, who was a gambler and a philosopher, [...] provided the occasion for these studies by asking questions about probability, to know how a game would be solved if it were interrupted at a certain point. With this he aroused the interest of Pascal, his friend, who examined the question." G. Giorello / C. Sinigaglia in " Pour la science " 1999 n° 32.
