The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
A Tale of How Mathematics Is Really Done
(Sprache: Englisch)
Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the...
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Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll or the likelihood of showers instead of sunshine was thought to lie in the realm of pure, unknowable chance.The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the "unfinished game" problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to end a game of dice before someone has won? The idea turned out to be far more seminal than Pascal realized. From it, the two men developed the method known today as probability theory.
Autoren-Porträt von Keith J. Devlin
Keith J. Devlin, geb. 1947, ist Mathematikprofessor in Stanford, wo er nur noch der 'Math-Guy', der Mathekumpel, genannt wird, der allen Mathematikgeschädigten Linderung verschafft. Keith Devlin ist Autor einer regelmäßigen Kolumne, Autor zahlreicher mathematischer Fachartikel und von über 20 populären Büchern von, mit und über die Mathematik.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Keith J. Devlin
- 2008, 191 Seiten, Maße: 22 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Basic Books
- ISBN-10: 0465009107
- ISBN-13: 9780465009107
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2009
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Englisch
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