The invention of the roulette is the outstanding mathematician and philosopher of the 17th Century , Blaine Pascal, attributed to the instrument with a cylinder and circling numbers constructed during the research on the to make certain observations regarding the regularity and chance in the arrays of Integer Sequences .

The sister of Blasé Pascal reported about dossier brother was once plagued by severe toothache and when he could not sleep at night still find reassurance in reading , he immersed himself in the number of the roulette secrets that he sat for hours in motion .

Only by this diversion, he forgot his pain. The great scholar has probably never thought that his innocent device would be in the hands of enterprising businessmen to a cash machine and the foundation of today's casinos.

From the Chronicles is not apparent where credit is the actual inventor of the roulette game titles . There are no reliable traditions about who had the roulette first used as an entertainment and gambling. In reports of the roulette , which have been found in documents of the moralist and Missioners Chevalier de Mere , a contemporary of Pascal, to number combinations intertwine with terms such as " good and evil ", " Day and Night" and "husband and wife " .

The whole thing here is not mathematical , but rather a mystical sense and seems to relate to mimicking oracle instruments of the Far East .

Also this was not a roulette game. Half a century after the death of Pascal , the roulette appears gradually in gaming rooms where besides other gambling games with dice , cards and lotto found a fertile soil and was recognized as a " royal " game of mathematical noble origin.