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In the early 1650s, a French aristocrat posed a gambling question to Blaise Pascal, one of the most brilliant scientists and philosophers of the time. But even Pascal needed help. The idea of seeing the future\u2014even seeing a possible future\u2014was so alien that he needed to discuss it with someone else. So he contacted his countryman Pierre de Fermat, arguably the greatest \u201camateur\u201d mathematician of all time. During the course of several months, the two men exchanged a series of letters that laid the foundation of what we know today as probability theory. In those letters, they changed the world.<\/p>\n

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Listen to Robert Black talk about the Mathematical Lives series in the Breaking Math podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Titles in Series:<\/p>\n

Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies<\/a>
\nBenoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World<\/a>
\nAda Lovelace: Programming the Future<\/a>
\nFlorence Nightingale: The Lady with the Diagrams<\/a>
\nPascal and Fermat: The Probability Pen Pals<\/a>
\nDavid Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel<\/a><\/p>\n

Mathematical Lives Set\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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