Probability:  The Science of Random Events – The Mathematical Analysis of Chance Processes

 

 

History of Probability:

 

          Ancient Dice

 

          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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