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The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern
The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern
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Devlin, Keith J
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Basic Books
Publication Date
c2008
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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.
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Fermat, Pierre de
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 -- Correspondence
Mathematicians
Mathematicians -- France -- Correspondence
Pascal, Blaise
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 -- Correspondence
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9780465009107
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