Eric Temple Bell Quote

Games of chance are probably as old as the human desire to get something for nothing; but their mathematical implications were appreciated only after Fermat and Pascal in 1654 reduced chance to law.


The Development of Mathematics (p. 154), McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1945


Games of chance are probably as old as the human desire to get something for nothing; but their mathematical implications were appreciated only after ...

Games of chance are probably as old as the human desire to get something for nothing; but their mathematical implications were appreciated only after ...

Games of chance are probably as old as the human desire to get something for nothing; but their mathematical implications were appreciated only after ...

Games of chance are probably as old as the human desire to get something for nothing; but their mathematical implications were appreciated only after ...