The Unfinished Game
Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
ProbabilitiesCorrespondenceMathematiciansPascal, blaise, 1623-1662Fermat, pierre de, 1601-1665HistoryMathematical statisticsFamous problems
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.
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