The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat and the letter of the seventeenth century that made the modern world before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical results. One could not simply a numerical value on the probability that a particular event would occur. The question persisted until Blaise Pascal, Pierre de Fermat wrote in 1654 that a solution to the "game" unfinished problem: how to sharethe pot when players are forced to a game of dice before someone has won? The idea proved to be realized as a much more promising than Pascal. From it, the two men developed the method known today as probability theory. In The Unfinished Game, mathematician and NPR commentator Keith Devlin tells the story of this correspondence and its impact on the modern world. Keith Devlin is a senior researcher at the Center of Stanford University for the study of language and information andExecutive Director, a consulting professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and co-founder of Stanford Research and the College Media Network X H-Star Institute. He has written 25 books and published more than seventy scientific papers. He is the "Math Guy" on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California. This event took place October 2, 2008
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