The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern /
Devlin, Keith J.
New York : Basic Books,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665
Probabilities.
Mathematicians