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Book 2010

The Unfinished Game

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Published
2010
  • Probabilities
  • Correspondence
  • Mathematicians
  • History
  • Mathematical statistics
  • Famous 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.