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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, And The Seventeenthcentury Letter That Made The World Modern,New University Press of Florida The Book Argues That HumanBefore The Midseventeenth Century, Scholars Generally Agreed That It Was Impossible To Predict Something By Calculating Mathematical Outcomes. One Simply Could Not Put A Numerical Value On The Likelihood That A Particular Event Would Occur. Even The Outcome Of Something As Simple As A Dice Roll Or The Likelihood Of Showers Instead Of Sunshine Was Thought To Lie In The Realm Of Pure, Unknowable Chance. The Issue Remained Intractable Until Blaise Pascal