Title: The Unfinished Game
Subtitle: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
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.
Subjects: Probabilities, Correspondence, Mathematicians, Pascal, blaise, 1623-1662, Fermat, pierre de, 1601-1665, History, Mathematical statistics, Famous problems