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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Probability

verfasst von : William S. Peters

Erschienen in: Counting for Something

Verlag: Springer New York

Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive

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Modern probability theory had its start in 1654 when a French nobleman known as Chevalier de Mere wrote a letter to Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a celebrated mathematician. The letter concerned some problems de Mere had encountered at the gaming tables. Pascal initiated a correspondence with another mathematician. Pierre de Fermat (1601–1655) about these problems. Neither Pascal nor Fermat ever published any of his work on probability, but most of the correspondence has survived.

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