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Grafton) exercise in self-scrutiny written at the end of his life and published muchlater by Gabriel Naudé. A man of medicine, a keen and excellent gambler, a greatmathematician and scientist, one of the most remarkable polymaths of all times,Cardano ‘astonished – and horrified – readers by his frankness’ (A. Grafton,introduction to Cardano’s Book of my life, New York, 2002, p. vi). His study of thegames of chance and of probability, a body of notes also published posthumously,in 1665, finds its foundation and motive in the regular practice of gamblingdescribed with colourful details, and not without touches of boastful pride, in thisexuberant autobiography.WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OFFERING A READING LIST ON MATHEMATICALLOGIC22. CARNAP, Rudolf. Introduction to semantics. Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 1942.8vo, pp. xii, 236; a very good copy, in the original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt;spine extremities, edges and corners lightly worn; ownership inscription of R.P.Brady dated 10/10/1945 on front free end-paper; some pencil underlining andmarginalia in Brady’s hand. With an autograph letter signed by Carnap laid in,complete with addressed envelope. £1250First edition. The letter inserted in this copy, dated February 26 th 1947, is oneleaf, penned and signed by Carnap, and addressed to R.P. Brady, a graduatestudent whose idea of a new introduction to Principia Mathematica Carnap finds‘very interesting’. In response to Brady’s request, Carnap offers a reading list onmathematical logic with brief comments, adding Cramer’s Mathematical methods instatistics as a final suggestion in the field of probability and statistics.