TY  - GEN
AU  - Devlin,Keith J.
TI  - The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern
T2  - Basic ideas
SN  - 9780465009107 (alk. paper)
U1  - 510.9 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Pascal, Blaise,
KW  - Fermat, Pierre de,
KW  - Probabilités
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - France
KW  - Correspondence
N1  - 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
ER  -