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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
Keith Devlin
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| #746323 in Books | 2010-03-23 | 2010-03-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.63 x5.63l,.42 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.| Valuable detailed account of an oft-mentioned episode in the history of probability|By David J. Aldous|Many textbooks on mathematical probability mention as a brief aside the correspondence between Pascal and Fermat on the subject of settling fairly a wager on an unfinished game. And many of the popular science style books on probability which have substantial historical com|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Prior to the development of statistics in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even rationalists were convinced that no human could speculate on the future. Devlin, NPR's "Math Guy" and the author of numerous books on
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 abou...
You easily download any file type for your device.The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern | Keith Devlin. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
