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How the 18th-century ‘probability revolution’ fueled the casino gambling craze

  • Written by John Eglin, Professor of History, University of Montana
How the 18th-century ‘probability revolution’ fueled the casino gambling crazeThe spinning wheel game 'EO' became popular after statutes banned gambling with devices featuring 'numbers or figures.'Heritage Art/Getty Images

The first commercial gambling operations emerged, coincidentally or not, at the same time as the study of mathematical probability in the mid-1600s.

By the early 1700s, commercial gambling operations were...

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