Pascal: The geometry of chance

MaRDI QIDQ2780978zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anne-Sophie Godfroy-Génin

Publication date 22 July 2002

Published in Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

FermatPascalproblem of pointstheory of probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of probability theory (60-03)

Review text

In this non-mathematical exposition the author stresses the legal nature of the problem of points solved by Pascal and Fermat; studies the difference between the Latin and the French versions of Pascal's ``Traité du triangle arithmétique (1665); notes an embryo of expectation contained there (``droit d'attendre); and remarks that Pascal had not treated statistical probabilities (or chances). She adduced 65 references (three of them to Pascal) but mentioned only 11 of them.

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