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384 BCE
Aristotle
A Greek philosopher, proposed that events could be divided into three areas. -
325 BCE
Early Christian Theology
They believed in no such thing as chance and that there was direct manifestation of God's Intervention. -
117 BCE
Greek Western Culture
The Greeks were comfortable with the thought that events in life were up to chance. It went against their ways that random events could be quantified in a useful way. They would rather think through problems logically rather than answer through experimentations. -
Mar 23, 801
Al-Kindi
Developed the first code breaking algorithm and authored a book in which he had in depth discussions about statistics. -
Pierre de Fermat
Father of Probability -
Chevalier De Mere
Gambler and significant figure of probability. -
John Graunt
Father of Statistics -
Blaise Pascal
Father of Probability -
Florence Nightingale
One of the first people to collect statistics on health policy and pioneer for women statisticians.