The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern by Keith J. Devlin

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

Keith J. Devlin

208 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even ...

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