Probability: The Science of Random Events The
Mathematical Analysis of Chance Processes
History of Probability:
Jerome Cardan (1501-1576), The Book
on Games of Chance
Chevalier de Mere, professional gambler
(1654)
Blaise
Pascal (1623-1662), Pierre Fermat (1601-1665)
Jacob Bernoulli,
coin tossing
Abraham De Moivre, Doctrine of Chances
Pierre Simon Laplace, Analytic Theory of Probability, (1812)
The most
important questions of life are, for the most
part, really only
problems of probability.
Andrei Kolmogorov, axiomatic approach to
probability, (1933)
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