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

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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.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
208

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Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Library of Congress
QA273 .D455 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
208
Weight
0.210

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL33837253M
ISBN 13
9780465018963
Goodreads
7956693

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Work ID
OL16954679W

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