The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin.
Examines the seventeenth-century correspondence between Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat that described a mathematical method that became the foundation of probability, and discusses how it later developed into the concept of risk management in the twenty-first century.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2008]
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| Series: | Basic ideas.
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Main Collection
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QA273 .D455 2008 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |