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Lang Matl
Author Devlin, Keith J.

Title The unfinished game : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern / Keith Devlin.

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  QA273 D455 2008    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  QA273    Available
Description x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series Basic ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- Th
Subject Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 -- Correspondence.
Fermat, Pierre de, 1601-1665 -- Correspondence.
Probabilities.
Mathematicians -- France -- Correspondence.
ISBN 9780465009107
0465009107
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