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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-12029-4
- Pages
- 395 –416
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-12030-0_17
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[In spite of the occurrence of many uncertain events in human experience in different civilizations since antiquity, be it in the East or the West, a quantitative approach to probability was not developed until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Western Europe. This peculiar “miss” is particularly notable in the history of Chinese mathematics, even though knowledge and skill in numerical calculation had long been well developed in ancient and medieval China.]
Published: May 13, 2015
Keywords: Europe