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" The unfinished game : "
Keith Devlin.
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BL
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656700
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Devlin, Keith J.
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| Title & Author
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The unfinished game : : Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern /\ Keith Devlin.
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| Series Statement
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Basic ideas
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x, 191 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780465009107 (alk. paper)
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: 0465009107 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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 -- The measure of our ignorance.
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Pascal, Blaise,1623-1662.
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Fermat, Pierre de,1601-1665.
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Probabilities.
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Mathematicians-- France, Correspondence.
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| Dewey Classification
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519.2
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| LC Classification
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QA273.D455 2008
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