b y Keith Devlin Basic Books, 208 pp., $24.95 When Keith Devlin, a mathematician and skilled popularizer, was invited to write about a world-changing mathematical document, he chose a letter from ...
Prior to the development of statistics in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even rationalists were convinced that no human could speculate on the future. Devlin, NPR's ""Math Guy"" and ...
THIS volume contains Huygens's celebrated essay, “De ratiociniis in ludo aleæ,” and various minor mathematical papers of his earlier years. The theory of probability was founded in 1654, when a ...
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