Unpublished paper, 'On the solution of some problems relating to games of chance' by Charles Babbage
Reference number: AP/9/3
Date: 25 September 1818
Description
Babbage offers solutions to common problems in games of chance using algebraic reasoning.
Subject: Mathematics
- Reference number
- AP/9/3
- Earliest possible date
- 25 September 1818
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Babbage, Unpublished paper, 'On the solution of some problems relating to games of chance' by Charles Babbage, 25 September 1818, AP/9/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_9_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-solution-of-some-problems-relating-to-games-of-chance-by-charles-babbage, accessed on 21 April 2026
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Archived papers: volume 9, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1817-1821
1815-1821 Reference number: AP/9
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Charles Babbage
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