Game of Probability - Literature and Calculation From Pascal to Kleist

Zusatztext "Rüdiger Campe's The Game of Probability lays out—for the first time and in all its complexity—a semantic field crucial to our modernity: to our social and juridical modernity, to our scientific and mathematical modernity, to our literary modernity. The breadth and depth of learning upon which this book rests will make it an invaluable resource for scholars across the historical-humanistic disciplines and the bright light generated by its readings will illuminate countless research projects. This marvelous book belongs among the most distinguished publications to have emerged out of cultural studies in Germany during the past thirty years." Informationen zum Autor Rüdiger Campe is Professor and Chair of German Language and Literature at Yale University. Klappentext This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically.

Product details

• Authors: Reudiger Campe, Rudiger Campe, Rüdiger Campe, Rudiger/ Wiggins Campe
• Assisted by: Ellwood Wiggins (Translation), Ellwood H. Wiggins (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2013
• EAN: 9780804768658
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6865-8
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism