Keith Devlin — библиография
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern Keith Devlin
Оригинальное название: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern Дата написания: 2008 Первая публикация: 2008 The unfinished game tells the story of the development of probability theory. From its early beginnings, on to Gaussian distribution and Bayes theorem all the way up to its central role in modern risk and finance theory. It's an easy read, mostly historical with interesting anecdotes.
