Devlin, Keith J.
The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin. - New York : Basic Books, c2008. - x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Basic ideas .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Monday, August 24, 1654 -- A problem worthy of great minds -- On the shoulders of a giant -- A man of slight build -- The great amateur -- Terrible confusions -- Out of the gaming rooms -- Into the everyday world -- The chance of your life -- The measure of our ignorance.
9780465009107 0465009107
2008012222
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 --Correspondence.
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 --Correspondence.
Probabilities.
Mathematicians--Correspondence.--France
QA273 / .D455 2008
519.2
The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin. - New York : Basic Books, c2008. - x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Basic ideas .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Monday, August 24, 1654 -- A problem worthy of great minds -- On the shoulders of a giant -- A man of slight build -- The great amateur -- Terrible confusions -- Out of the gaming rooms -- Into the everyday world -- The chance of your life -- The measure of our ignorance.
9780465009107 0465009107
2008012222
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 --Correspondence.
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 --Correspondence.
Probabilities.
Mathematicians--Correspondence.--France
QA273 / .D455 2008
519.2