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.