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The Unfinished Game (2008) (edit title/settings)

Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

by Keith Devlin (Author) (edit contributors)

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Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice... read more

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  1. Keith Devlin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
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Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0465009107
Page Count: 208

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