Pascal e la nascita del calcolo delle probabilità
Matematica, cultura e società, Série 1, Tome 8 (2023) no. 1, pp. 43-56
The 1654 correspondence between Fermat and Pascal on problems concerning game of chances is usually assumed as the beginning of the mathematical theory of probability. In this note I examine the contents of the correspondence and the points of the Traité du Triangle Arithmétique where Pascal provided a closed solution of the problems of points between two players. Finally, I will mention the ruin problem and the “wager” that Pascal discussed in his Pensées.
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Rosso, Riccardo. Pascal e la nascita del calcolo delle probabilità. Matematica, cultura e società, Série 1, Tome 8 (2023) no. 1, pp. 43-56. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/RUMI_2023_1_8_1_a3/