Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition

[Man] invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling.Richard Epstein''s classic book on gambling and its mathematical analysis covers the full range of games from penny matching, to blackjack and other casino ...