Hamrick, Jeff2013-03-082013-03-082011-08-24http://hdl.handle.net/10267/15804This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor. Uploaded by Archives RSA Josephine Hill.As a field of mathematics, probability theory is fairly young. Some historians say that the study of probability began in 1654, when Antoine Gombaud and Chevalier de Mere discovered that their intuition about the results of a certain dice game conflicted with their mathematical analysis. They contacted Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, who began to exchange letters and who jointly formulated some of the fundamental principles of probability theory.en-USRhodes College owns the rights to the archival digital objects in this collection. Objects are made available for educational use only and may not be used for any non-educational or commercial purpose. Approved educational uses include private research and scholarship, teaching, and student projects. For additional information please contact archives@rhodes.edu. Fees may apply.SyllabusCurriculumAcademic departmentsTextMathematics and Computer Science, Department of2011 FallSyllabus