The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern - Rilegato

Devlin, Keith J.

 
9780465009107: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

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Examines a letter written by Blaise Pascal to Pierre de Fermat in 1654 that speaks of probability and numerical values that have had an impact on the modern world with regard to calculating insurance rates, the housing markets, and car safety.

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Keith Devlin is a senior researcher at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information and its executive director, a consulting professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and of the university’s H-STAR institute. He has written twenty-five books and over seventy-five published research articles. He is the ?Math Guy” on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California.


Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center fot the Study of Language and Information and it's executive director. He is also a consulting professor in the Department of Mathematics at Standfored University.

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9780465018963: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

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ISBN 10:  0465018963 ISBN 13:  9780465018963
Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2010
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