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

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

Keith Devlin

191 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics philosophy informative fast-paced
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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, B...

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