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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern - Keith J. Devlin
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780465009107 (0465009107)
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, History, Science, Mathematics
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3.0 The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
text The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
I appreciate the import of this idea, and the math behind it. I mostly liked the presentation - bits of the letters and the history behind them. Something about the writing - the style perhaps - didn't sit right with me. Will read some of Devlin's online column to see if I can narrow it down sometim...
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern - Keith J. Devlin
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern - Keith J. Devlin
The Unfinished Game - Keith J. Devlin
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern - Keith J. Devlin
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