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_aDevlin, Keith J. _91905 |
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_aThe unfinished game : _bPascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / _cKeith Devlin. |
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_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _cc2008. |
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_ax, 191 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm. |
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_aBasic ideas _91906 |
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505 | 0 | _aMonday, 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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_aPascal, Blaise, _d1623-1662 _xCorrespondence. _91907 |
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_aFermat, Pierre de, _d1601-1665 _xCorrespondence. _91908 |
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_aProbabilities. _91909 |
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_aMathematicians _zFrance _xCorrespondence. _91910 |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008012222.html |
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_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2008012222-b.html |
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_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2008012222-d.html |
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