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Full Record Check this checkbox to mark or unmark the current record AUTHOR Devlin, Keith J., 1947-. TITLE The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin. IMPRINT New York : Basic Books, 2008. DESCRIPTION x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. SERIES Basic ideas. NOTE Includes bibliographical references and index. CONTENT NOTE 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. SUBJECT Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 -- Correspondence. SUBJECT Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 -- Correspondence. SUBJECT Mathematicians -- France -- Correspondence. SUBJECT Probabilities. DISCIPLINE Mathematics. ISBN 0465009107. Location Call Number Status English Book Collection 519.2 DEV Available 在館