The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern/
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 ignoran .
9780465009107 (alk. paper) 0465009107 (alk. paper)
2008012222
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665.
Probabilités.
Mathematicians--Correspondence.--France
510.9 / D497u
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 ignoran .
9780465009107 (alk. paper) 0465009107 (alk. paper)
2008012222
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665.
Probabilités.
Mathematicians--Correspondence.--France
510.9 / D497u