The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, And The Seventeenthcentury Letter That Made The World Modern-used Europa Editions Pauline Oliveros

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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, And The Seventeenthcentury Letter That Made The World Modern-used Europa Editions Pauline OliverosBefore 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