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I always found it an interesting coincidence that the two basic ingredients of modern quantum theory, namely probability and complex numbers, were discovered by the same person, an extraordinary man of many talents, a gambling scholar by the name of Girolamo Cardano.
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Galileo Galilei was explicitly asked, by one of the gambling noblemen at the court in Florence, to explain this puzzle, and so he did in his brief Considerazioni sopra il Giuoco dei Dadi, written around 1620.
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For more details, see David (1998).
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Ekert, A. (2014). Random, Complex, and Quantum. In: Lupacchini, R., Angelini, A. (eds) The Art of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_8
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