Devlin, Keith J. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465009107 (alk. paper) 0465009107 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008012222 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 <br/>Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Probabilités.<br/>Mathematicians--Correspondence.--France
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>510.9  / D497u