Chevalier de mere biography sample

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Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Suppose two players agree to play a certain number of games, say a best-of-seven series, and are interrupted before they can finish.

How should the stake be divided among them if, say, one has won three games and the other has won one? In keeping with his Salon methods, Gombaud enlisted the Mersenne salon to solve it. How should the stake be divided among them if, say, one has won three games and the other has won one?

Chevalier de mere biography sample

In keeping with his Salon methods, Gombaud enlisted the Mersenne salon to solve it. Two famous mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat , took up the challenge. In a series of letters they laid the foundation for the modern theory of probability. Gombaud claimed that he had discovered probability theory himself, a claim not taken seriously by the mathematicians involved.

He also claimed that his probability calculations showed that mathematics was inconsistent, and argued elsewhere that mathematicians were wrong in thinking that lines are infinitely divisible. Contents move to sidebar hide.