Keith J. Devlin

Examines a letter written by Blaise Pascal to Pierre de Fermat in 1654 that speaks of probability and numerical values that have had an impact on the modern world with regard to calculating insurance rates, the housing markets, and car safety.

Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-century Letter that Made the World Modern

The Unfinished Game

Safiya 

The book illustrates the history of probability, not dense with equation's, in fact all of which are made easier to understand with all the examples and explanations that the author used. 
Why don't we go on learning maths this way, fun, simple and tightly related to the 'real' world ?

The Unfinished Game Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-century Letter that Made the World Modern

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