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Brooks chronicles the life of the Italian mathematician Jerome Cardano. Cardano grew up in Renaissance Milan, the son of a lawyer who counted Leonardo da Vinci among his associates. He was known of his compulsive gambling behavior and his mathematical inventions. Cardano began to jot down his insights, where he gathered these writings into The Book on Games of Chance. This told the reader how to work out various probabilities, such as the likelihood of any particular outcome of a dice roll. Cardano also developed what they now call the law of large numbers, showing that 1000 flips of a coin should turn up almost exactly 500 heads and 500 tails. Gambling didn't provide enough income, however, especially as Cardano's grasp of probability wasn't strong enough to make him unbeatable, or to make it clear exactly when he should stop.
