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The Unfinished Game

Keith J. Devlin · 2008

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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.

Book details

Year
2008
Language
English
Publisher
Basic Books
Editions
2
Pages
191
ISBN
9780465009107

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