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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. The Taming of Chance

Author : Edward Beltrami

Published in: What Is Random?

Publisher: Springer US

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Abstract

In the dim recesses of ancient history, the idea of chance was intertwined with that of fate. What was destined to be would be. Chance was personified, in the Roman Empire at least, by the Goddess Fortuna, who reigned as the sovereign of cynicism and fickleness. As Howard Patch puts it in his study of this Roman deity, “to men who felt that life shows no signs of fairness, and that what lies beyond is at best dubious, that the most you can do is take what comes your way, Fortuna represented a useful, if at times flippant, summary of the way things go.”

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Metadata
Title
The Taming of Chance
Author
Edward Beltrami
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0799-2_1