The Unfinished Game
Subtitle: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
By: Keith Devlin.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780465009107
Subjects: Pascal, Blaise, -- 1623-1662 -- Correspondence; Fermat, Pierre de, -- 1601-1665 -- Correspondence; Probabilities; Mathematicians -- France -- Correspondence
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monday, August 24, 1654; title: A problem worthy of great minds; title: On the shoulders of a giant; title: A man of slight build; title: The great amateur; title: Terrible confusions; title: Out of the gaming rooms; title: Into the everyday world; title: The chance of your life; title: The measure of our ignorance.