The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin.
By: Devlin, Keith J
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BookSeries: Basic ideas. Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2008Description: x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780465009107; 0465009107.Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 -- Correspondence | Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 -- Correspondence | Probabilities | Mathematicians -- France -- CorrespondenceDDC classification: 519.2 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
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.
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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.
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