Chance and Luck

Project Gutenberg’s Chance and Luck, by Richard Proctor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Chance and Luck Author: Richard Proctor Release Date: December 4, 2005 [EBook #17224] Language: English Character set encoding: TeX *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHANCE AND LUCK *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net This file was produced from images from the Cornell University Library: Historical Mathematics Monographs collection. CHANCE AND LUCK: A DISCUSSION OF THE LAWS OF LUCK, COINCIDENCES, WAGERS, LOTTERIES, AND THE FALLACIES OF GAMBLING; WITH NOTES ON POKER AND MARTINGALES. BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR AUTHOR OF ‘HOW TO PLAY WHIST,’ ‘HOME WHIST,’ ‘EASY LESSONS IN THE DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS,’ AND THE ARTICLES ON ASTRONOMY IN THE ‘ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA’ AND THE ‘AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA.’ ‘Looking before and after.’—Shakespeare. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1887. All rights reserved. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Richard Anthony Proctor, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE.