The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern

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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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Basic Books, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

The original correspondence was writtenn in French

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  • 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 ignorance

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