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3500 BCE
Egypt
Hounds & Jacks -
3050 BCE
Wealth & Population in Egypt
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1500 BCE
Famine
Used dice to play games as a distraction -
1400 BCE
Combinations of 7
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1200 BCE
Dice
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40
How to Win at Dice
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1500
Summa de Arithmetica
Luca Pacioli -
1539
Father of Probability Theory
Girolamo Cardano -
Father of Statistics
John Graunt -
Late 1600s
Edmund Halley - annuities
Abraham Demoivre - Doctrine of Chances -
Political Arithmetic
William Petty -
Problem of Points
Blaise Pascal & Pierre de Fermet -
De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae
"On Reasoning in Games of Chance" by Huygens -
Game of Chance
Daniel Bernoulli -
Law of Large Numbers
Jakob Bernoulli -
Father of Modern Probability Theory
Pierre Simon de LaPlace & Theory of Continuous Probability -
Census Data
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Statistical Analysis of Census Data
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet -
Probability & Genetics
Gregor Mendel -
Law of Regression & Correlation Coeffecient
Francis Galton -
Biometrics
Karl Pearson -
Chain Theory of Probability
Andrey Markov -
Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener