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

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

Devlin, Keith

Paperback

General MathematicsProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 0465018963
ISBN13: 9780465018963
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Mar 23 2010
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining that he had discovered how to calculate risk. The two collaborated to develop what is now known as probability theory--a concept that allows us to think rationally about decisions and events.

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