Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. One. Casanova 9
5. Two. The Genoese Lottery 19
6. Three. The Establishment of the Loterie in 1757 23
7. Four. Problems and Adjustments in the Early Drawings 28
8. Five. Antoine Blanquet and the Great Expansion of 177 42
9. Six. The Introduction of Bonus Numbers: Les Primes Gratuites 50
10. Seven. The Spread of the Loterie in Europe 55
11. Eight. Data Security: The Design of the Tickets 61
12. Nine. The Loterie and the Revolution 67
13. Ten. Was the Loterie Fair? 77
14. Eleven. Dreams and Astrology: The Bettors and the Loterie 90
15. Twelve. The Number 45 and the Maturity of Chances 110
16. Thirteen. How Much Did They Bet, and Where? 132
17. Fourteen. Muskets, Fine- Tuned Risk, and Voltaire 143
18. Fifteen. The Loterie in Textbooks and Manuals 156
19. Sixteen. The Suppression of the Loterie in 1836 172
20. Conclusion 197
21. Acknowledgments 211
22. Appendix One. Probability 213
23. Appendix Two. Laplace’s Lottery Theorem 216
24. References 229
25. Index 239