The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern Devlin Keith
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern Devlin Keith In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was…
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern Devlin Keith
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining that he had discovered how to calculate risk. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence.
The two collaborated to develop what is now known as probability theory--a concept that allows us to think rationally about decisions and events.In The Unfinished Game, Keith Devlin masterfully chronicles Pascal and Fermat's mathematical breakthrough, connecting a centuries-old discovery with its remarkable impact on the modern