Turning Fortune's Wheel
| Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:12PM | | | | Turning Fortune's Wheel | Posted By: Joseph Mazur
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| | | Turning Fortune's Wheel begins with a brief history of gambling in the gambling houses of Louis XIV’s Paris at a time when the common person on the street believed his or her destiny is predicted by astrology, tarot, or palm reading, when amulets and crosses were worn to ward off the evil eye, and a time when the momentous ideas of probability where just being discovered and formulated by Pascal and Fermat.
A general history of seventeenth and eighteenth century gambling rooms of Europe follows before with a focal shift to nineteenth century America and Mississippi river boat gambling, and then onto twentieth century casinos from Monte Carlo to Las Vegas where the mathematics behind roulette and blackjack is described and explored alongside the pathology of... | | | | | | | |
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Looking for luck
I am collecting interesting gambling and game show stories. If you have such a story worthy of note that you would be willing to share, please leave a message. If it fits the theme and thesis of my forthcoming book I may wish to use it.
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