The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, And The Seventeenthcentury Letter That Made The World Modern,New University Press of Florida Will Serve As A Beacon

Will Serve As A Beacon To Guide Both Current And Future Efforts To Develop Leaders Who Can Ensure Better Educational Outcomes For All Students

' Michael Dirda

All Of The Above Is The Delightful And Suspenseful Story Of Four Inner City Students And Their Quest To Build The World'S Largest Tetrahedron

The Book Argues That Human Beings Are At Their Best Not When They Are Engaged In Abstract Reflection

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, And The Seventeenthcentury Letter That Made The World Modern,New University Press of Florida Will Serve As A BeaconBefore The Midseventeenth 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